The phrase “closed until further notice due to COVID-19” has become all too familiar. And, while we have started to grow accustomed to losing access to many resources that typically define our ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild in the fall of 2011 against five HathiTrust Digital Library ...

The UB Libraries has become one of the newest members of HathiTrust, a partnership of more than 130 academic and research libraries aimed at preserving and ensuring access to millions of scholarly ...

The constitutionality of digital fair use was upheld this past October, when US District Court Judge Harold Baer summarily dismissed the Authors Guild’s year-old lawsuit against the HathiTrust library ...

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In addition, AG claims that the library effort represents a “potentially catastrophic” security risk also “ring hollow,” the brief argues, because the HathiTrust implements the same security measures ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - The "fair use" doctrine allows a digital library to create a full-text searchable database of copyrighted works and to make those works accessible, the 2nd Circuit ruled today.

Many writers and scholars have criticized Google’s immense digitization project for errors in scanning quality and for many different kinds of problems with the metadata associated with each item.

In a key fair use ruling, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed Judge Harold Baer’s October 2012 verdict in the Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust case. The copyright infringement suit was ...

A group of major universities has been quietly working for the past two years to build one of the largest online collections of books ever assembled, by pooling the millions of volumes that Google has ...

Not sure where this would best be posted, so here goes everything. I've been trying to get a copy of this book for some time now. It seems near impossible without me personally visiting one of these ...