From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:06:38 -0400

See James Grimmelmann's Oct.13th Publishers Weekly posting about Judge
Baer's ruling.

http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2012/10/13/hathitrust-a-landmark-copyright-ruling/

As everyone wonders about [if] the connection between this and the
Google case, note this excerpt:

"Google: The HathiTrust opinion does not technically dispose of the
case against Google. Google is a commercial company, and it shows
snippets of books in its search results. But neither of these factors
seems crucial to the  opinion, which rests more on his conclusion that
digitization for search transforms the underlying books without
cutting into the market for them. Not only will Judge Baer’s opinion
be a persuasive precedent on this point, it also creates an awkward
situation for his colleague Judge Chin, who will naturally be
reluctant to reach a conflicting decision in what is essentially the
same case."