Klarinet Archive - Posting 000309.txt from 2005/08

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] more about google print - Dan Leeson are you out there?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:19:34 -0400

Ormondtoby Montoya wrote:

>Does "fair use" describe the amount of text which Google allows each
>client to read (and/or print)? Or perhaps does "fair use" describe the
>amount of text which Google makes available to everyone to search (and
>subsequently to select a smaller portion thereof for reading and/or
>printing)?
>
>
Fair Use (a concept that is _not_ ascribed to in many countries) does
not put any metrics on how much of any work may be copied. In some
instances a single sentence could violate Fair Use (for instance, a book
concerned with a very distinct subject, such as one on a mathematical
algorithm, may have a single sentence describing and illuminating the
algorithm).

There are some library guidelines (10% of the work if memory serves
correctly) that were included as reference when the law was written, so
while the guidelines are implied to have weight in a dispute, they are
not part of the law.

There are already some disputes. See:

http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/43323.html
http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2005/05/like_we_didnt_s.html

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