The Authors Guild, Inc. et al v. Hathitrust et al
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DECLARATION of LAURA ABELSON in Support re: 74 MOTION for Summary Judgment.. Document filed by Georgina Kleege, Blair Seidlitz, The National Federation of the Blind, Courtney Wheeler. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A - CCB Depo, # 2 Exhibit B - Google Clancy, # 3 Exhibit C - interrogatories, # 4 Exhibit D - Kleege, # 5 Exhibit E - Seidlitz, # 6 Exhibit F - Wheeler)(Goldstein, Daniel)
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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THE AUTHORS GUILD, INC.,
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN
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PUBLISHERS, INC., et al.,
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Plaintiffs,
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vs.
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GOOGLE, INC.,
CASE NO.
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05 CV 8136 (DC)
Defendants.
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H I G H L Y
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C O N F I D E N T I A L
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DEPOSITION OF DANIEL CLANCY
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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
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JUNE 1, 2012
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BY:
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CSR LICENSE NO. 9830
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JOB NO. 50225
ANDREA M. IGNACIO HOWARD, CSR, RPR, CCRR, CLR
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JUNE 1,2012
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9:58 a.m.
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DEPOSITION OF MICHAEL CLANCY, taken at
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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP,
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Two Embarcadero Center, San Francisco,
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California, pursuant to Notice, before me,
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ANDREA M. IGNACIO HOWARD, CLR, CCRR, RPR,
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CSR License No. 9830.
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A P P E A R A N C E S:
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FOR DEFENDANTS:
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KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON
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By:
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1100 Peachtree Street, N.E.
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Atlanta, Georgia 30309
ALLISON SCOTT ROACH, Esq.
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FOR PLAINTIFFS:
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FRANKFURT KURNIT KLEIN & SELZ
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By:
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488 Madison Avenue
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New York, New York
JEREMY GOLDMAN, Esq.
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A P P E A R A N C E S:
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FOR GOOGLE:
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DURIE TANGRI
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By:
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217 Leidesdorff Street
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San Francisco, California 94111
DARALYN J. DURIE, Esq.
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FOR THE DEFENDANT INTERVENORS:
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By:
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BROWN GOLDSTEIN & LEVY
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120 Baltimore Street
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Baltimore, Maryland 21202
LAURA ABELSON, Esq. (Via Telephone)
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What is Google's estimated cost of scanning a
book through this -- through the library project?
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MS. DURIE:
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Today?
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MR. GOLDMAN:
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THE WITNESS:
Objection; vague.
Today.
The estimate
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of the cost just
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of the scanning of the book, not of the development of
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the technology, would be $10, estimate.
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And what about Cornell?
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Could you describe the steps that are taken
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to digitize a book.
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The -- the book is placed on the scan
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station.
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book open but not flat.
The operator starts at the
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beginning of the book.
He has a pedal, and he clicks
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the pedal.
The scan station has a cradle that holds the
A picture is taken of both pages.
The
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operator turns a page and clicks the pedal again.
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Another picture is taken.
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the -- all the pages in the book have been scanned.
And it continues
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And then what happens?
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Then the images are processed.
until
There's a
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process called dewarping, which is -- since the pages
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are curved, it flattens out the image.
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Then it -- a process of cleaning, which is
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making the text or images -- and eliminating any other
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spurious marks or other things that might be in there.
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Then you do optical character recognition,
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which processes the image and turns the words into
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text.
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And then there is a process which we call
analysis, which is assessing the quality of the scan
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