This piece explores the digitization and uploading to the Internet of full-text books, book previews in the form of … chapters or snippets, and databases that index the contents of book collections. Along the way, it will describe the economics … illustrates the deadweight losses from restricting digital libraries, book previews, copyright litigation settlements, and dual …

digital form and to make these works accessible to consumers through Google Book Search (GBS). In response to a class action …

.In 2004, Google launched a fabulous book digitization project that aimed at making more than 30 million books available online …

Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) in May 2010 are certainly welcome. A result of that workshop is this book, published in … legal scholar and lawyer Pablo A. Palazzi. In this book review I present the main issues the book touches upon …

-in requirements can play in copyright law. Google Books seeks to make every book in the English language text-searchable. To realize … this goal, however, Google has to scan the text of each such book – and scanning means making a copy and whose rights are …

This paper considers the legal position of internet search company Google's Book Search project, primarily from an … Australian copyright law perspective. An overview of Google generally and the Book Search project specifically is provided as … the project. Key variations between US and Australian law are outlined as they relate to the Book Search project. Finally …