AUTHORS GUILD v. GOOGLE, INC.

Docket No. 13-4829-cv.

804 F.3d 202 (2015)

The AUTHORS GUILD, Betty Miles, Jim Bouton, Joseph Goulden, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellants, Herbert Mitgang, Daniel Hoffman, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Paul Dickson, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Pearson Education, Inc., Simon & Schuster, Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc., Canadian Standard Association, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. GOOGLE, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 16, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul M. Smith , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC ( Edward H. Rosenthal , Jeremy S. Goldman , Anna Kadyshevich , Andrew D. Jacobs , Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellants.

Seth P. Waxman , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Louis R. Cohen , Daniel P. Kearney, Jr. , Weili J. Shaw , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington D.C & Daralyn J. Durie , Joseph C. Gratz , Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, CA, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: LEVAL, CABRANES, PARKER, Circuit Judges.


This copyright dispute tests the boundaries of fair use. Plaintiffs, who are authors of published books under copyright, sued Google, Inc. ("Google") for copyright infringement in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Chin, J.). They appeal...

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