• DocumentCode
    898914
  • Title

    Should indexing be fair use? The battle over Google Book Search

  • Author

    Lesk, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Rutgers Univ., Newark, NJ
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    80
  • Lastpage
    83
  • Abstract
    In late 2004, Google announced as part of its Library Project that it would scan millions of books into a searchable online database accessible to anyone using Google Book Search (http://books.google.com). In response, the US Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) sued Google, claiming its book scanning is "massive copyright infringement". Google says its indexing is a legitimate fair use. As in all such discussions, two different questions arise: What does the law say? What would be good public policy?
  • Keywords
    copyright; government policies; indexing; law; publishing; search engines; Association of American Publishers; Google Book Search; Google Library Project; US Authors Guild; book scanning; copyright infringement; fair use; indexing; public policy; searchable online database; Autobiographies; Books; Computer security; Databases; Indexing; Law; Legal factors; Libraries; Marketing and sales; Protection; Google; copyright infringement; fair use; indexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2006.52
  • Filename
    1621067