[Nfbc-info] DIGITAL ACCESS TO 80 MILLION BOOKS

[Joy Stigile]

Hi Brian,

Thank you for sharing!  Great to know the final ruling and hear the whole 
recording.  Yea to Dan Goldstein , one of the attorney's hired by the 
National Federation of the Blind!

Joy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Buhrow via Nfbc-info" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 4:25 PM
Subject: [Nfbc-info] DIGITAL ACCESS TO 80 MILLION BOOKS


> Hello.  As many on this list know, the NFB has spent a lot of time and
> money working to gain access to the digital copies of books Google scanned 
> for
> university libraries as part of its digital project.  Last week the courts
> ruled that providing access to these copies for disabled individuals is 
> not
> an infringement of the copyright law.  Below is a link to the story as
> heard on NPR's All Things Considered on Tuesday June 10, 2014.   This link
> opens the audio file directly.
>
> Enjoy!
> -Brian
>
> http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/06/20140610_atc_book_copyright_ruling.mp3
>
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