Please note that french & US law are highly different on this matter :
US has the "fair use", this is something that don't exist in french law.
If a material is copy protected, then it can't be used without explicit
permission.
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Paul POULAIN
http://www.biblibre.com
Expert en Logiciels Libres
Nicolas --
Would the speaker contend that using GBS to reference *full image scans* of
*entire works* was OK, but somehow just the cover thumbnails in OPAC were
prohibited? I'm sure Google's management would be surprised to find they
didn't own the scans (for example, of old out-of-copyright work