Editing Data mining (section)

===Situation in the United States===

[[US copyright law]], and in particular its provision for [[fair use]], upholds the legality of content mining in America, and other fair use countries such as Israel, Taiwan and South Korea. As content mining is transformative, that is it does not supplant the original work, it is viewed as being lawful under fair use. For example, as part of the [[Google Book Search Settlement Agreement|Google Book settlement]] the presiding judge on the case ruled that Google's digitization project of in-copyright books was lawful, in part because of the transformative uses that the digitization project displayed—one being text and data mining.<ref>{{cite web|title=Judge grants summary judgment in favor of Google Books – a fair use victory|url=http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a18c5b92-5a20-4d1d-a098-a3095046a88e|website=Lexology.com|date=19 November 2013|publisher=Antonelli Law Ltd|access-date=14 November 2014|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129011031/http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a18c5b92-5a20-4d1d-a098-a3095046a88e|url-status=live}}</ref>