The Authors Guild Files Supreme Court Appeal in Google Books Case | The Digital Reader

"The Authors Guild has suffered defeat at every stage of their decade-old legal battle over Google's book-scanning project, including losing an appeal in October, but that hasn't stayed their resolve. Earlier today The Author's Guild announced that they had filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court. I'm not going to quote the appeal, but the gist of it is that The Authors Guild wants the Supreme Court to overrule the district court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeal and find that Google's scanning of books for use as in its search results amounted to copyright infringement, and not fair use. But first, some background ..."