Jonathan Zittrain, holder of the chair in Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University and a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, said he's rooting for Google to win the lawsuit. But he added that from a legal perspective, the case is a tossup, with good arguments on both sides. "As a matter of legal doctrine, this is a case on which reasonable people can disagree," Zittrain said. But he believes that Google's project would provide substantial benefits to the public. At the Harvard University Library, director Sidney Verba said the lawsuit was unfortunate but might at least provide clear legal guidance on the digitizing of copyrighted books. "I'm sorry that it had to go to court," said Verba, "but I'd love to see some legal decision about it to clear things up, because it is right now terribly uncertain."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/20/2005 11:52:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
