AUTHORS GUILD, INC. v. GOOGLE INC.

No. 05 Civ. 8136(DC).

954 F.Supp.2d 282 (2013)

The AUTHORS GUILD, INC., and Betty Miles, Joseph Goulden, and Jim Bouton, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. GOOGLE INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

November 14, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boni & Zack LLC, by Michael J. Boni, Esq. , Joshua D. Snyder, Esq. , John E. Sindoni, Esq. , Bala Cynwyd, PA, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz P.C. by Edward H. Rosenthal, Esq. , Jeremy S. Goldman, Esq. , New York, NY, Milberg LLP by Sanford P. Dumain, Esq. , New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Durie Tangri LLP by Daralyn J. Durie, Esq. , Joseph C. Gratz, Esq. , David McGowan, Esq. , Genevieve P. Rosloff, Esq. , San Francisco, CA, for Defendant Google, Inc.

Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic by Jennifer M. Urban, Esq. , Babak Siavoshy, Esq. , Jason Schultz, Esq. , University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Matthew Sag, Esq. , Chicago, IL, for Amicus Curiae Digital Humanities and Law Scholars.

Jonathan Band PLLC by Jonathan Band, Esq. , Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, and Electronic Frontier Foundation.


OPINION

CHIN, Circuit Judge.

Since 2004, when it announced agreements with several major research libraries to digitally copy books in their collections, defendant Google Inc. ("Google") has scanned more than twenty million books. It has delivered digital copies to participating libraries, created an electronic database of books, and made text available for online searching through the use of "snippets." Many of the books scanned by Google, however...

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