Tuesday, October 1, 2013

U.S. Judge Boosts Google 'Fair Use' Defense of Digital Books

Appeals Court Judge Denny Chin appeared to support Google's use of the fair use defense at a recent U.S. district court hearing.  Google has claimed the fair use exception to defend its practice of digitizing millions of books, while the plaintiffs charge that this "amounts to massive copyright infringement."  What do you think?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/26/net-us-google-books-idUSBRE98M19S20130926