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ital-1859	McDermott, Abigail J.	Copyright: Regulation Out of Line with our Digital Reality?	2008-03-01	14	.pdf	application/pdf	6541	266	44	Fair use, a statutory exception to U.S. copyright law, is a complex subject, but a brief examination of the principle gets to the heart of copyright law itself. The fact that University of Michigan Associate University Librarian John Price Wilkin was forced to assure the public that “no copyrighted books were made accessible to any students” illustrates the absurdity in arguing over whether it’s right to digitize books that are no longer even accessible in their printed form.20 LIBRARIES, DIGITIZATION, AND COPYRIGHT LAW: THE QUIET CRISIS While one can debate if U.S. copyright law is still oriented toward the public good, the more relevant question in this context is the effect copyright law has on the library profession.	cache/ital-1859.pdf	txt/ital-1859.txt