PUBPOL 373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Digital Rights Management, Authors Guild, Public Knowledge

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No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. Through its library project and its google books project, acting without permission of rights holders, google has made digital copies of tens of millions of books, including. Plaintiffs", that were submitted to it for that purpose by major libraries. Google has scanned digital copies and established a publicly available search function. An internet user can use this function to search without charge to determine whether the book contains a specified word or term and also see snippets of text containing the searched-for terms. Google has allowed the participating libraries to download and retain digital copies of the books they submit, under agreements which commit the libraries not to use their digital copies in violation of the copyright laws. Augments public knowledge by making available information about plaintiff"s books without providing the public with a substantial substitute for matter protected by the.

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