Reblogged from paidContent:

Google (s goog) cites everything from Mad Men to minority rights in a fresh attempt to bolster its claim that the scanning of millions of books qualifies as a "fair use" under copyright law. The arguments, set out in court filings submitted on Friday, come as Google's long-running dispute with the Authors Guild heads toward an end game.

According to Google, its massive book scanning project is fair use because the scanning has delivered many public benefits without harming authors.

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What does Google's counsel Daralyn Durie do for an encore after union-busting fails in Google Books? Argue that scanning 20 million books, lyrics, illustrations, photographs, etc., is fair use. You should understand that what Google does in the books case is exactly what they are going to do in the YouTube class action which is pending in the same New York courts (2nd Circuit) You should also watch this video by a fired Google whistleblower about the extraordiary secrecy surrounding Google's digitization factory at a secret building in the Googleplex.  What do they have to hide?