[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4cast #538: Google Books now

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OPLIN 4cast #538: Google Books now
April 19th, 2017

[image: What happened to Google Books?] One year ago yesterday, the US
Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Authors’ Guild to review a
lower court decision in favor of Google, thus ending a legal challenge to
Google Books that had dragged on for over a decade. Google Books is widely
considered to be Google’s first big change-the-world project: scanning
millions of print books from libraries to build an online digital library
that anyone could use, without any fees or advertising. Projects that are
perhaps more appealing to librarians, such as the HathiTrust or the Digital
Public Library of America, have built on the Google Books concept. But now,
one year after the big victory, Google Books seems oddly quiet.
- Challenge to Google Books is declined by Supreme Court
<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/technology/google-books-case.html> (New
York Times | Adam Liptak and Alexandra Alter)  “As is their custom, the
justices gave no reasons for declining to hear the case, Authors Guild v.
Google Inc., No. 15-849. Last year, a unanimous three-judge panel of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said that Google’s
project was lawful and beneficial. ‘The purpose of the copying is highly
transformative, the public display of text is limited and the revelations
do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of
the originals,’ Judge Pierre N. Leval, an authority on copyright law, wrote
for the panel.”
- Be glad the Supreme Court ended the Google Books case
<http://fortune.com/2016/04/18/google-books-supreme-court-analysis/>
(Fortune | Jeff John Roberts)  “Information that was once locked up in
dusty tomes at places like Harvard and Stanford can now be accessed by
anyone with a keyboard and an Internet connection. This digital
distribution has brought democratization of knowledge, and a wealth of
research opportunities for readers and scholars. If the Authors Guild had
prevailed, millions of books could have been closed once again, sealed off
by a thicket of lawyers demanding permission to peek at any page.”
- Hail and farewell to the Google Books case
<http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/70326-hail-and-farewell-to-the-google-books-case.html>
(Publishers Weekly | James Grimmelmann)  “The initial fear that Google
would dominate publishing, crushing all beneath its robotic boots, was once
at least plausible. But Google Play Books is now a punchline, as is the
idea that the revenue generated from searches and snippets of out-of-print
books was a treasure trove stolen from rightsholders. If the breathtaking
ambition of the Google Books settlement was its undoing, however, such
ambition also galvanized new thinking about how to carry forward the
centuries of our cultural legacy locked away in print.”
- How Google Book search got lost
<https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d>
(Backchannel | Scott Rosenberg)  “In a sense, the company behaved like the
Uber of intellectual property–a kind of read-sharing service–while
expecting to be seen the way it saw itself, as a beneficent pantheon of
wizards serving the entire human species. It was naive, and the stubborn
opposition it aroused came as a shock. But Google took away a lesson that
helped it immeasurably as it grew and gained power: Engineering is great,
but it’s not the answer to all problems. Sometimes you have to play
politics, too–consult stakeholders, line up allies, compromise with rivals.”

*Articles from Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Another page in the Google Books saga: Appeals court blesses mass
   digitization project as fair use.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=114565919>
   (*Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal*, Feb.2016, p.20-23 |
   Lance Koonce)
   - One title, hundreds of volumes, thousands of documents.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=100830848>
   (*Library Resources & Technical Services*, Jan.2015, p.24-32 | Suzanne
   M. Ward, Patricia A. Glasson and Randall F. Roeder)
   - Checking in with Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA.
   <http://search.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=tfh&AN=91955494>
   (*Computers in Libraries*, Nov.2013, p.4-9 | Naomi Eichenlaub)

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