Related, on book scanning, à la Google:

Court rules book scanning is fair use, suggesting Google Books victory [Judge rules for Google’s library partners in lawsuit brought by Authors Guild], is the headline from an arstechnica article, excerpt below:

The Author’s Guild has suffered another major setback in its fight to stop Google’s ambitious book-scanning project. The Guild lost a key ally when Google settled with a coalition of major publishers last week. Now a judge has ruled that the libraries who have provided Google with their books to scan are protected by copyright’s fair use doctrine....

HathiTrust Statement on Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Ruling, October 12, 2012, excerpt:

On October 10, 2012 Judge Harold Baer, Jr. of the U.S. Southern District of New York court ruled in our favor on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al. We are pleased that the court has recognized the importance of the work that libraries are performing to preserve the scholarly record and provide information and services to communities of scholars....