Google is yer #1 winnar as the last realistic appeal against their complete domination of information/access been rejected by the US Supreme Court.
...because digitizing copyright material, making it fully searchable and providing access to related ‘snippets’ is, apparently, legit defensible as ‘fair use’ under copyright law.
‘the court said the snippets made available by Google were not a viable substitute for the works and that it was immaterial if Google made a profit from its search business using the books.’
OKAY OKAY. IDK. BUT, OKAY.
1. can we all pls even PRETEND to care about copyright when we’re not talking about Game of Thrones?
2. can we all PLS even TRY to remember that copyright law is the sexiest and most relevant kind of law and we could probably express that a lil better?
3. don’t worry, yew guys. don’t worry abt Trove. this is good for information. it’s safe. don’t worry, it’s safe. close all the Libraries. don’t worry.