Most people think of scanners as that quaint mechanism that looks like an old photocopier on the printer, or an independent flatbed ideal for capturing receipts. But in commercial terms, there are two ...

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In a highly anticipated appeal brief, lawyers for the Internet Archive argue that district court judge John G. Koeltl misunderstood the facts and misapplied the law in finding the IA’s scanning and ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Google has spent years scanning books, recreating the world's leading libraries as digital files we can read and search on PCs and smartphones. The project has faced a fair amount of opposition -- ...

A federal judge says that the search giant made "fair use" of library books and says its massive project "provides significant public benefits." By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Google has ...

I never understood how scanning a book didn't count as fair use. Copyright was designed to prevent the unauthorized sale and distribution of protected works; scanning ...