Unlocking the Riches of HathiTrust

摘要

The constitutionality of digital fair use was upheld this past October, when US District Court Judge Harold Baer summarily dismissed the Authors Guild's year-old lawsuit against the HathiTrust library collaborative to block the use of its growing repository of millions of full-text book scans. Calling the project "the enduring work of libraries," HathiTrust Executive Director John Wilkin told American Libraries the organization continues to plan "more and better" uses of its scanned content. An appeal is pending. Meantime, bloggerati Barbara Fister, Karen Coyle, and James Grimmelmann shared with AL how they see this decision shaping the future of sharing digitally preserved print materials.