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Is Google Book Search "Fair Use"?

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This is a talk (ok, a long talk, ~30 minutes) about whether Google's Book Search project -- called "massive copyright infringement" by the American Association of Publishers, is "fair use"? It is.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: lessig

Length: 30:49
Rating: 4.79
Views: 57450

Tags: creativecommons  fairuse  google  

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vegasthornton111 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
so AAP is the association of american publishers, not the American association of Publishers as you described.
masterOFpuppets06 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
no one wants to read a book online unless its for research
Culiel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Clear, concise. Keep fighting for us, Lessig.
stisaac (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I like google book search and believe it is fair use. However, the thumbnail example is not exactly the same as what google does. Though end-users see a 'thumbnail' or 'transformation' of the book, google has copied the entire work to its personal servers. In the case of the thumbnails, only the transformation was stored on the engine's servers.
SinOfYesterd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
WHO GIVES A SHIT!
barbiegirl62995 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
no pickle
wilsonnkwan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I really wonder how itunes and Imeem managed to preview copyrighted work for 30secs for each song (which is much more than 10% of original content) got away and Google is being sued. Copyright laws nowadays are so strict that things are not getting into public domain.
noodleswat (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
some obviously absorb little of this, based on comments. It's truly excellent. Thank you for your efforts to bring it to the web. Your presention is one that many companies should consider hiring. Quite pleasant in it's presentation.
muzicman01 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
my question is how the hell did you get your video so long
Multisynth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A very clear video and thought on the subject. Thanks.

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