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Fair Use Victory Advances a Future of Accessibility for All

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

HathiTrust, a unanimous three-judge panel concluded that digitizing books in order to enhance research and provide access to individuals with print disabilities is lawful on the grounds of fair use —that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work ( Section 107 of the U.S.

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Google Images is making it easier to license photo rights

The Verge

Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright. Images with licensing information provided by the publisher will now appear in search results with a “Licensable” badge over the thumbnail.

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Google lobbies Australian users against plans to make it pay for news

The Verge

Screenshot: Google. Google has published an open letter about a newly proposed government regulation that would compel it to pay media outlets for news content. An ominous warning is being shown to Google’s users in Australia. “We Google also says that the law could put user data at risk.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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A single company asked Google to delist almost one billion "pirate" web pages in less than a year

TechSpot

Google provides a regularly updated transparency report regarding web content removal due to copyright violations. Google can then "delist" these URLs by removing them from its web search results. Law firms and other organizations can submit a DMCA notice to the company, detailing the infringing URLs.

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Google wins court battle with Genius over song lyrics

The Verge

Google won its court fight with Genius | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Google has once again prevailed in an ongoing legal battle with song lyrics website Genius, which claimed that Google was using its transcribed lyrics without permission in search results.

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New York Times Encourages Staff to Create Headlines Using AI

Futurism

As Semafor reports , the New York Times recently informed employees that they now have a whole suite of AI tools at their disposal to write search headlines the version of headlines that appear on search engines like Google as well as code, social copy, quizzes, and more.

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