Judge's Ruling a Win for Fair Use in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Case - 0 views
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Matt Barrow on 20 Nov 12This article reports on the ruling by Harold Baer, Jr. which held that the HathiTrust's mass digitization is fair use. The judge explained in his opinion that the HDL's project is not only fair use in and of itself, but that its potential for text mining and the facilitation of access for print-disabled persons are transformative in nature, and can serve an entirely different purpose than the original works.