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Law and ethics

Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Scott Althaus; David Bamman; Sara Benson; Brandon Butler; Beth Cate; Kyle K. Courtney; Sean Flynn; Maria Gould; Cody Hennesy; Eleanor Dickson Koehl; Thomas Padilla; Stacy Reardon; Matthew Sag; Rachael Samberg; Brianna L. Schofield; Megan Senseney; Timothy Vollmer; and Glen Worthey. "This book explores the legal literacies covered during the virtual Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining Institute, including copyright (both U.S. and international law), technological protection measures, privacy, and ethical considerations. It describes in detail how we developed and delivered the 4-day institute, and also provides ideas for hosting shorter literacy teaching sessions. Finally, we offer reflections and take-aways on the Institute."

DSC #7: The DSC and Mean Copyright Law, Quinn Dombrowski and Matthew Sag, September 22, 2020

Court opinions

Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 804 F.3d 202 (2d Cir. 2015)

Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust, 755 F.3d 87 (2d Cir. 2014)

A.V. ex rel. Vanderhye v. iParadigms, LLC, 562 F.3d 630 (4th Cir. 2009)