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Monday, April 18, 2016

Supreme Court: Google It

From Inside Higher EdThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced it will not hear Authors Guild v. Google, a case on whether Google's book digitization project violates authors' rights. The court's decision leaves in place a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which ruled in favor of Google...*

This is a case in which the UC library system supported Google: ...As an outcome of our partnership with Google, close to 4 million volumes digitized from UC library collections are held within the HathiTrust Digital Library, including many works that are in the public domain or long out of print.  The digitization of these collections is a necessary foundation for 21st century scholarship, enabling richer discovery and engagement with the record of human thought found in books...**
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*https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/04/18/breaking-supreme-court-declines-hear-google-books-case
**http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2015/10/uc-libraries-statement-on-authors-guild-v-google/

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