[Ads-l] News: Supreme Court declines to hear Authors Guild appeal; Google prevails; Google Books database is legal (for now)

[Benjamin Barrett]

Thank you for that update on this case.

For others like me who find the title confusing, it could have been better written as “Supreme Court Rejects Authors Guild’s Appeal in Google Books Case.”

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 18 Apr 2016, at 09:29, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Website: Publishers Weekly
> Article: Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Appeal
> Author: Andrew Albanese
> Date: April 18, 2016
> 
> http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/70002-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-appeal.html
> 
> [Begin excerpt]
> The decision was not unexpected. Legal observers had given the Authors
> Guild slim odds at winning a review, given that two separate appeals
> panels have unanimously affirmed that Google’s scanning and indexing
> of out-of-print books from library shelves was a fair use under U.S.
> copyright law.
> [End excerpt]

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