Re: Question about Google Print

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

The copying is 100% - it's only the displaying to the Google user that is
partial.  100% of all the books in a library's collection is, surely,
nothing if not substantial

Sally

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:32 PM
Subject: RE: Question about Google Print

> >  For in-copyright works (assuming they can figure out which these are),
> > the amount displayed will be extremely limited (a kind of 'keyhole'
> > view) though, of course, as far as legality is concerned that is hardly
> > the point.
> On the contrary, I think that "substantiality" of the copying is deeply
> relevant to the legality question -- or at least to the Fair Use/Fair
> Dealing question.  The law includes explicit allowances for the copying
> and redistribution of small portions of copyrighted texts, within certain
> limits.
>
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> Rick Anderson
> Dir. of Resource Acquisition
> University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
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