Nevada Court Rules Google Cache Is Fair Use
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Nevada Court Rules Google Cache Is Fair Use
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:00:07 -0500
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Thursday, January 26, 2006 | Infozine.com
Nevada Court Rules Google Cache Is Fair Use
Important Milestone for Digital Copyright Law
San Francisco, CA - A federal district court in Nevada has ruled that
Google does not violate copyright law when it copies websites, stores
the copies, and transmits them to Internet users as part of its Google
Cache feature. The ruling clarifies the legal status of several common
search engine practices and could influence future court cases,
including the lawsuits brought by book publishers against the Google
Library Project. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was not
involved in the case but applauds last week's ruling for clarifying that
fair use covers new digital uses of copyrighted materials.
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