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Originally Posted by xg4bx
Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Monday, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as many as 7 million copyright-protected books they say were scanned without authorization.
The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors and the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecrivains Quebecois, or UNEQ, joined eight individual
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bgalbrecht :"I wonder if the foreign authors are doing this suit against the universities and HathiTrust as a publicity stunt against Google. "
And you are of what nationality ? I'm intrigued.
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This is a discussion of a US court case. In this context foreign means not from the US. Also, any discussion of fair use within this thread needs to be in the context of the US rules on fair use within the copyright laws. I haven't studied the copyright laws closely, but it's quite possible that the fair use provisions don't apply to foreign works (works created by non-US citizens, originally published outside of the US). From my volunteering for Distributed Proofreaders, I know there are different rules for foreign works to determine whether the copyright has lapsed.