Pamela Samuelson Questions Photographers’ Copyright Suit against Google

-The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2010 by Scott Morrison
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“Google does not make available any of the visual material that might be in the books, unless the copyright holder has agreed to it,” said Pamela Samuelson, a digital copyright expert at University of California at Berkeley. “I don’t really think this lawsuit has as good a chance as the authors’ lawsuit.”

-Information Today, Inc., April 15, 2010 by Nancy Herther
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“Google has a better fair use defense in this case than in the Author’s Guild case, and it will be difficult to certify a class here because Google is not displaying photos or other visual images unless they believe they have permission, which maybe they do under contracts with publishers,” Samuelson notes.