http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/international/google-book-scanning-proj/2198108.html

"A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of revenue.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected infringement claims from the Authors Guild and several individual writers, and found that the project provides a public service without violating intellectual property law."

Text of the decision:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jy9Sa8zPtaMW1DVm1XeUZBQXM/view

Update:
http://www.infodocket.com/2015/10/16/ruling-just-in-google-book-scanning-project-legal-says-u-s-appeals-court/

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2015/10/18/google-books-fair-use-and-the-public-good/

http://digitalmontagny.inha.fr/en

"In 1804, French artist and pupil of David, traveled to Italy to document antiquities from Naples and Rome.
Now in 2015, you can page through this sketchbook composed of 430 drawings.
View all folios plus recent scholarly essays in the Getty Research Institute’s new digital publication: ,“Elie-Honoré Montagny’s Recueil d'Antiquités.“ "

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http://philobiblos.blogspot.de/2015/08/links-reviews_30.html

"The Times (UK, subscription required) reported this week that newly-released phone taps "have exposed how Marcello Dell'Utri, a senator and old friend of Berlusconi, received books from Marino Massimo De Caro. ... In one phone conversation with De Caro in 2012, Dell'Utri says one book he wants is so valuable, it will come with 'truffles on it'." Dell'Utri was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2014 for ties to the Sicilian mafia; he has maintained that he did not know the books he was receiving from De Caro were stolen. The texts of the phone taps were originally reported in La repubblica."

http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/08/24/news/de_caro-121566496/

http://researchfragments.blogspot.de/2015/08/sanctus-columbanus-fecit-hos-caracteres.html

Juan Pablo Alperin, Dominique Babini, Leslie Chan, Eve Gray, Jean-Claude Guédon, Heather Joseph, Eloy Rodrigues, Kathleen Shearer, Hebe Vessuri, Open Access in Latin America: a Paragon for the Rest of the World, The Winnower 2:e143982.27959 (2015). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15200/winn.143982.27959

See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/1022464777/

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http://manuscriptminiatures.com/

"ManuscriptMiniatures.com is an image collection of miniatures depicting armoured figures from the medieval period. Miniatures are sourced from manuscripts created before 1450 in countries across Europe."