Judge asked to rule on ‘fair use’ in Hathitrust case

14 March 2012 Books+Publishing

The latest actions in the copyright infringement lawsuit against digital repository HathiTrust and five universities in the US could force a more specific legal definition of what constitutes 'fair use' of digitised literary works in libraries and archives. The group of authors and societies--including the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)--that filed the lawsuit...