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Authors Guild v Google: judges drop class action ruling

Wednesday, 3 July 2013    Books+Publishing
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In the US Authors Guild’s lawsuit against Google’s book-scanning project, judges from the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals have dropped Judge Denny Chin’s 2012 ruling that granted the guild class action status, reports Publishers Weekly. In the 2012 ruling, Chin had said that analysing fair use issues for individual works would be burdensome and duplicative,...

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