Fri, October 12, 2012
The Author's Guild received a stunning blow this week when Federal judge Harold Baer tossed out their copyright infringement lawsuit against the HathiTrust digital repository. This is a major development for academic libraries who seek to provide access to materials under fair use copyright law.
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