Unsurprisingly, Judge Denny Chin agreed with his own ruling from 2005 and once again agreed to certification of the class of authors in the refiled Google Books infringement case–thus sentencing himself to potentially years more of administering this case. He also approved associational plaintiff status for both the Authors Guild and the American Society of Media Photographers. One shouldn’t read much into the ruling other than that the case will go forward all over again. In part, Chin used Google’s own actions against them: “Given the sweeping and undiscriminating nature of Google’s unauthorized copying, it would be unjust torequire that each […]
