>> it is a part of the american copyright doctrine. it says that yes there is copyright and there is exemptions that are fair use and are okay to do. when these publishers went and sued google over there process, the judge said, it is fair use. they are digitizing these books and making them available and that is fair use. there is a fair use case on the control that was put in place in the united states in 1976. before that, you had copyright for 14 years. no problem. we had a long tradition in this country in 1976. fair use and exemptions for libraries to be able to offer add land. those are written into copyright law and are now being challenged in the courts by these billion-dollar corporations. i learned a lot about what happened when billion-dollar corporations go after the small nonprofits. we have read what happens of your poor or a minority. the same part of the justice system comes in if you are a small nonprofit. the >> you mentioned you are not a lawyer, what happened? >> i am a librarian. starting out for a computer scienti

fair use is a part of the american copyright doctrine. i'm not a lawyer that basically says that, yes, there are copyright rights, but there are exemptions that are fair use. there are okay to do so. for instance, when these same publishers went and sued google over their process, the judge said it's fair use their digital using these books, making them available as snippets, as searchable snippets. that's a fair use. there's lots of different of fair use of court cases. it's one of the escape valves on the sort of absurdly too much control that was put in place in the united states in 1976, before or that, the copyright of ben franklin is you had copyright for 14 years, renewable ones and derivative works. no problem. so we had a long tradition in this country until it was sort of really screwed down in 1976 and fair use and specific exemptions for libraries to be able to offer. instance, lend. those are written into copyright law and are now being challenged in the courts by these billion dollar corporations. i've learned a lot about wha