The Authors Guild’s petition to have the Supreme Court hear their appeal of the copyright infringement case first filed against Google’s scanning of library books in 2005 will be reviewed at the court’s conference on April 1. If you have any need to reacquaint yourself with the issues, the docket entry for the petition for cert. filed on December 31, 2015 is here — and the Court of Appeals unanimous verdict upholding (former) District Court Judge Denny Chin’s original and unequivocal ruling that Google’s scanning qualified as “fair use” is here.
