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A Win for Users’ Rights: Supreme Court Finds Access Copyright Tariff Not Mandatory and End-User Perspective Must be Considered in Fair Dealing Analyses

Fair for Who? In Favour of Digital Lock Exceptions for Canadian Archives

Internet Archive: Challenging Copyright Holders Around the World

Google’s Big Score: District Court Says Book Digitization Project is Fair Use

In the latest installment of the legal saga surrounding Google’s book digitization project,  Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District NY court has granted summary judgement in favour of Google, Inc. following eight years of litigation.

Google’s digital library wins fair use against Canadian writers

Won’t somebody think of the children!? A New York federal court judge will. A copyright infringement lawsuit by multiple authors’ groups – including two Canadian ones – against Google and several universities for their HathiTrust Digital Library book scanning and digital distribution has been dismissed.