After at least three strikes (or more, depending upon how you count), the Authors Guild’s decade-long case accusing Google of copyright infringement in their library book-scanning program has come to an end. In their conference last Friday, the Supreme Court denied the Guild’s petition for a writ of certiorari. That leaves standing District Court Judge Denny Chin’s original and unequivocal 2013 ruling that Google’s scanning qualified as “fair use.” Judge Chin’s finding was unanimously upheld by a three-judge Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel in 2015. The Authors Guild first brought their suit in September 2005. The AAP followed with their own […]
