Like many other Google services, Google Books has been contentious from the start. In 2005, less than a year after launch, the Authors Guild, Association of American Publishers, and a number of other writers filed two copyright suits against it for scanning books and displaying short excerpts ("snippets") online. Authors called it copyright infringement on a "massive" scale, while Google pled fair use, saying it was showing little text and transforming the books into an online database. And while one lawsuit was finally settled last year, another has taken a step backwards.
In a ruling delivered earlier today, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit threw out a lower court's decision to grant the authors class action status. That...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/1/4482726/google-books-lawsuit-class-action-status-thrown-out-by-court
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