[Corpora-List] obtaining copyright permissions

[John Burger]

Albretch Mueller wrote:

> To me corpora present their data (or "information" as some like to
> say) in an aggregated form. It is like saying that some people want to
> keep their personal data out of statistical or census data and AFAIK
> no one has sued google in their rampant digitizing of books

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/technology/internet/29google.html

 From the article:

> The agreement, under which Google would pay $125 million to settle  
> two copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning efforts, would allow  
> it to make millions of out-of-print books available for reading and  
> purchasing online.
>

- John D. Burger
   MITRE


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