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This news article posted by Newsroom America outlines the quiet victory for librarians that occurred pertaining to copyright laws. This event has been described as a major victory for the digital humanities. Earlier in October 2012, a federal court ruled against the Authors Guild in favor of the HathiTrust, a massive digital archive of library materials converted from print that is co-owned and managed by a partnership of more than 60 academic institutions, including the University of Illinois. Publishers Weekly claimed this ruling as a "landmark in copyright" law.

This brief news article from 2011 highlights an agreement between the Digital Public Libraries of America and Europeana to code their systems in such a way as to be interoperable and similar to each other. This change allows the two databases to be readily accessed and aggregated by the user, to "have access to the combined riches... at a single click." One of the major projects arising from this collaboration was a virtual exhibition about the migration of Europeans to America.

This website provides information about several programs, websites, and formats that show promise in long-term sustainability of digital information. It also describes formats that they do not believe will be the best option of sustainability. It also covers formats in consideration of copy right laws, collecting the information, and how to adjust a format to fit the Library of Congress recommendations.

Matthew Ingram discusses the recent ruling on the Author's Guild's copyright infringement lawsuit. The author points out the decisive nature of the ruling, and goes on to explain the reasons that the project clearly falls under the protection of fair use. He argues that this ruling follows the intent of copyright law, to promote research and knowledge.

This overview of copyright law and the application of fair use discusses the deciding factors as they apply to different types of copyrighted work.

This extensive resource packet provides detailed information regarding the HathiTrust lawsuit. The writer is in favor of the defendants, arguing in various ways the lawfulness and usefuleness of the project.

This article explains the dispute between Google and publishers here in the United States. As we have seen in class, Google Books offers internet users the ability to search through their database of scanned books. Publishers are fighting that Google is violating copyright laws by scanning these books and letting people have free open access. Although the project itself is causing an uproar, publishers as well as authors are being given the opportunity to decide what books are included in this project.