Friday News: Huge win for fair use; ComiXology to accept self published comics; New ebook app has security concerns

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Author’s Guild v Hathi Trust: A Win for Copyright’s Public Interest Purpose – Nancy Sims has a really fantastic write up of the Hathi Trust Fair Use win from yesterday. Hathi Trust is a consortium of five majority universities who built a digital library of over 10 million books, over 76% that are still in copyright. This digital library was built, in part, by Google’s scanning efforts that are being sued separately. The Authors’ Guild and others sued Hathi Trust for...