The Google Book Search Library Project, announced in December 2004, raised important questions about infringing reproduction and fair use under copyright law. Google planned to digitize, index, and display "snippets" of print books in the collections of five major libraries without the permission of the books' copyright holders, if any. This book examines the important issues that were raised by the outcome of the Google Library Project, and analyze possible future cases which may raise similar questions about infringing reproduction and fair use. The authors also discuss hyperlinking, in-line linking, caching, framing and thumbnails and how they relate to a copyright holder's traditional rights to control reproduction, display, and distribution of protected works. This book consists of public documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted, and enhanced with a subject index, selectively edited and bound to provide easy access. Chapter 1 - The purpose of this monograph is to serve as an introduction to, and a starting point for research about, the law of copyright. It cannot feasibly be minutely detailed in its text or heavily annotated in its footnotes. Fortunately, there are a number of longer works of high quality that can be recommended to serve those latter purposes. For over forty years, the masterful multi-volume treatise, constantly cited by the courts, has been that of the late Professor Melville Nimmer: Melville & David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright. It has now been joined by an equally outstanding multi-volume treatise by Professor Paul Goldstein, titled simply Copyright. Both works are regularly updated. A single- volume treatise that can be recommended, and that is somewhat more detailed than this monograph, is Understanding Copyright Law (4th ed. 2005), by Marshall Leaffer.