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."