The Authors Guild responded to our request for comment after Wednesday’s Publishers Lunch was dispatched. Executive director Paul Aiken said, “We plan to appeal the decision” from Judge Denny Chin finding that Google’s book scanning was protected fair use under copyright law. Aikens added: “We disagree with and are disappointed by the court’s decision. This case presents a fundamental challenge to copyright that merits review by a higher court. Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world’s valuable copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works. In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the […]
