Big Win For Authors Guild In Google Case

[I like Chin more and more. A sensible and logical decision, and - 
happily - one that bodes ill for Google. But it may be merely another 
delaying tactic from Google.]


    Big Win For Authors Guild In Google Case

Posted at 8:09AM Friday 01 Jun 2012

The battle is officially on. On May 31, Judge Denny Chin rejected 
Google's motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as an associational 
plaintiff, and granted the Guild's motion for class certification, 
meaning that Google's library scanning program, barring another 
settlement, is headed to trial on the merits.

http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/41068/nl 
<http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/52184-big-win-for-authors-guild-in-google-case.html>
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/52184-big-win-for-authors-guild-in-google-case.html
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/52186-authors-guild-responds-to-chin-s-latest-ruling-in-google-case.html

'...In denying Google's motion to sever the Authors Guild and to have 
the case move forward with only the three named plaintiffs, Chin firmly 
rejected Google's position. "Indeed, the Authors Guild has played an 
integral part in every stage of this litigation since its inception 
almost seven years ago," Chin observed. "Only when it became apparent, 
in 2011, that no settlement would be achieved did Google object to the 
Authors Guild's participation in the litigation." 
...'http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/31/breaking-judge-gives-ok-to-authors-photographers-to-sue-google-over-book-scanning/


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