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  2. Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. Authors Guild v. Google 804 F.3d 202 (2nd Cir. 2015) was a copyright case heard in federal court for the Southern District of New York, and then the Second Circuit Court of Appeals between 2005 and 2015. It concerned fair use in copyright law and the transformation of printed copyrighted books into an online ...

  3. Google Books - Wikipedia

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    Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]

  4. Preservation (library and archive) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In conservation, library and archival science, preservation is a set of preventive conservation activities aimed at prolonging the life of a record, book, or object while making as few changes as possible. Preservation activities vary widely and may include monitoring the condition of items, maintaining the temperature and humidity in ...

  5. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...

  6. Help : Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and ...

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    A search engine check shows that this is much more common than "Samuel Wyly." 2. Do a search (or several) to find out what Wikipedia already has on the topic. You can read about search techniques in the box in the section about searching. Don't search for "Sam Wyly"; that Wikipedia article was already created as an example for this book.

  7. Million Book Project - Wikipedia

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    The Million Book Project was a 501 (c) (3) charity organization with various scanning centers throughout the world. By December 2007, more than 1.5 million books had been scanned, in 20 languages: 970,000 in Chinese; 360,000 in English; 50,000 in Telugu; and 40,000 in Arabic. [2] Most of the books are in the public domain, but permission has ...

  8. Authors Guild - Wikipedia

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    Authors Guild. The Authors Guild is America's oldest and largest professional organization for writers and provides advocacy on issues of free expression and copyright protection. Since its founding in 1912 as the Authors League of America, it has counted among its board members notable authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including ...

  9. Wikibooks - Wikipedia

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    Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki -based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit. Initially, the project was created solely in English in July 2003; a later expansion to include ...