Just over 10 years after the Authors Guild first filed suit against Google’s scanning of library books, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously confirmed District Court Judge Denny Chin’s 2013 ruling that the project qualifies as fair use under the copyright ruling. In a decision just as sweeping as Judge Chin’s own definitive conclusion rejecting all the Guild’s arguments, the Appeals Court also found in Google’s favor across the board. With their affirming opinion — and following a string of court losses in the original case and a related case against the nonprofit Hathi Trust built on parts of Google’s scanning — […]
