AUTHORS GUILD, INC. v. HATHITRUST

No. 12-4547-cv.

755 F.3d 87 (2014)

AUTHORS GUILD, INC., Australian Society of Authors Limited, Union Des Ecrivaines Et Des Ecrivains Quebecois, Angelo Loukakis, Roxana Robinson, Andre Roy, James Shapiro, Daniele Simpson, T.J. Stiles, Fay Weldon, Authors League Fund, Inc., Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, Sveriges Forfattarforbund, Norsk Faglitteraer Forfatter-Og Oversetterforening, Writers' Union of Canada, Pat Cummings, Erik Grundstrom, Helge Ronning, Jack R. Salamanca, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HATHITRUST, Cornell University, Mary Sue Coleman, President, University of Michigan, Janet Napolitano, President, University of California, Raymond W. Cross, President, University of Wisconsin System, Michael McRobbie, President, Indiana University, Defendants-Appellees, National Federation Of The Blind, Georgina Kleege, Blair Seidlitz, Courtney Wheeler, Intervenor Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: June 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward H. Rosenthal ( Jeremy S. Goldman , Anna Kadyshevich , on the brief), Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C., New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Joseph Petersen ( Robert Potter , Joseph Beck , Andrew Pequignot , Allison Scott Roach , on the brief), Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Daniel F. Goldstein ( Jessica P. Weber , on the brief), Brown Goldstein & Levy, LLP, Baltimore, MD; Robert J. Bernstein , New York, NY, on the brief; Peter Jaszi , Chevy Chase , MD, on the brief, for Intervenor Defendants-Appellees.

Jennifer M. Urban , Pamela Samuelson , David Hansen , Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA, for Amici Curiae 133 Academic Authors.

Blake E. Reid , Brian Wolfman , Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Association of People with Disabilities.

Jonathan Band , Jonathan Band PLLC, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Library Association.

David Leichtman , Hillel I. Parness , Shane D. St. Hill , Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P., New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc.

Brian G. Joseph , Karyn K. Ablin , Wiley Rein LLP; Ada Meloy , General Counsel, American Council on Education, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae American Council on Education, Association of American Universities, et al.

Elizabeth A. McNamara , Alison B. Schary , Colin J. Peng-Sue , Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae the Associated Press.

Mary E. Rasenberger , Nancy E. Wolff , Eleanor M. Lackman , Nicholas J. Tardif , Cowan DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae Association of American Publishers.

Jo Anne Simon , Mary J. Goodwin , Amy F. Robertson , Jo Anne Simon, P.C., Brooklyn, NY, for Amici Curiae Association on Higher Education and Disability, Marilyn J. Bartlett, et al.

Brandon Butler , Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Beneficent Technolology, Inc., and Learning Ally, Inc.

Susan M. Kornfield , Bodman PLC, Ann Arbor, MI, for Amici Curiae Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, et al.

Jason Schultz , Berkeley, CA; Matthew Sag , Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae Digital Humanities and Law Scholars.

Michael Waterstone , Los Angeles, CA; Robert Dinerstein , Washington, DC; Christopher H. Knauf , Knauf Associates, Santa Monica, CA; Michael Stein , Cambridge, MA, for Amici Curiae Disability Law Professors.

Roderick M. Thompson , Stephanie P. Skaff , Deepak Gupta , Rochelle L. Woods , Farella Braun & Martel LLP, San Francisco, CA; Corynne McSherry , Daniel Nazer , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA; John Bergmayer , Public Knowledge, Washington, DC; David Sohn , Center for Democracy & Technology, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Stephen M. Schaetzel , Meunier Carlin & Curfman, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae Emory Vaccine Center.

Frederick A. Brodie , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Eric J. Grannis , The Law Offices of Eric J. Grannis, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Medical Historians.

Steven B. Fabrizio , Kenneth L. Doroshow , Steven R. Englund , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.

Before: WALKER, CABRANES, and PARKER, Circuit Judges.


BARRINGTON D. PARKER, Circuit Judge:

Beginning in 2004, several research universities including the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, and the University of Indiana agreed to allow Google to electronically scan the books in their collections. In October 2008, thirteen universities announced plans to create a repository for the digital copies and founded an organization called HathiTrust to set up and operate the HathiTrust...

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