In Supreme Court certiorari filing, Authors Guild continues to litigate Google Books case after ten years of failure – TeleRead

"‘Tis apparently the season for Hail Mary appeals to the Supreme Court. We already heard about Apple’s attempt to get its agency pricing antitrust conviction re-heard. It seems only fitting that, in the same month, the Authors Guild brings to SCOTUS an appeal of the case that some have said was indirectly responsible for the agency pricing situation coming about in the first place. I refer, of course, to the kerfuffle surrounding Google Books, nee Google Print. The Authors Guild first brought suit against Google over the project all the way back in 2005—before I had even started writing for TeleRead. Google’s crime? Scanning and indexing as many books as it possibly could, to seed a search engine to let people search on their content. The case dragged on and on and on, losing a few years as an attempt at a settlement that would let Google act as an e-book store meandered into the weeds and got lost, before finally being rejected by Judge Denny Chin as too much of an overreach ..."