Book scanning: it's not piracy, it's transformational

[kestrell]

Wow! I feel like I'm coming out of the transmedia closet. This is one more for the technopeasants (I have a t-shirt for that). Too bad Googlebooks is all inaccessible, but you can find many of the scanned texts from the university project at archive.org .
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121011/01250620675/court-book-scanning-is-obviously-fair-use.shtml