ABSTRACT
The Digital Age has enabled individuals worldwide to store, organize, and share everything from cherished memories embodied in photographs and videos to academic writing and correspondence. Yet, archived collections of academic, public, and private libraries are out of reach to many, and many books are now beyond reach because they are no longer in print. The high cost of digitization exacerbates these challenges.
In 2004, Google Inc responded to these issues by announcing a project to scan and digitize the collections of several leading universities and public libraries (the ‘Google Books’ project). The project offered users the opportunity to search the entire corpus of scanned works. For works still under copyright, users could view only snippets sufficient to give them a taste of the complete work; users interested in accessing the full text could, however, buy the books from the publisher directly through links that the system provides …
Miriam Marcowitz-Bitton and Dan Bombach, Fair Use as a Market Facilitator, Akron Law Review, volume 55, issue 2, article 2. Published online 16 September 2022.
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