A REPORT ON FAIR USE OF DIGITIZED COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS

Abstract

There is a movement afoot recently to digitize many of the written pages of works including textbooks, novels, newspapers, magazines, etc. Nearly every piece of work can be changed to digital format, either for archiving and protecting them for future generations, or selling them for profit. A simple search for the work will turn up an extract of the work, but not the whole work in its entirety. Is it wrong to do so display any of the work without asking permission from the copyright holder, or not? I believe that if you own the work then it cannot be reproduced without your explicit permission, and restitution must be made and royalties paid.

A REPORT ON FAIR USE OF DIGITIZED COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS

There is a movement afoot recently to digitize many of the written pages of works including textbooks, novels, newspapers, magazines, etc. Nearly every piece of work can be changed to digital format, either for archiving and protecting them for future generations, or selling them for profit. A simple search for the work will turn up an extract of the work, but not the whole work in its entirety. Is it wrong to do so display any of the work without asking permission from the copyright holder, or not? I believe that if you own the work then it cannot be reproduced without your explicit permission, and restitution must be made and royalties paid.
The problem of locating the actual copyright holder Google has been working to digitize 30 million books. Many of them are still copyrighted. Normally when somebody wishes to display copyrighted information then they will seek out permissions from the holder. Google decided that task would be monumental, so they would have an opt-out option for the program. An analysis of the lawsuit against Google states “The opt-out approach