Google Wins Over Book-Scanning Lawsuit
Case Date: 11-15-2013
Case: Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google, Inc.
Case Number: 05-08136
Judge: U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (New York County)
Plaintiff’s Attorney: Cynthia S. Arato, Michael J. Boni, Jeffrey Paul Cunard, Sanford P. Dumain, Jeremy Seth Goldman, Bruce P. Keller, Robert J. Larocca, Edward Henry Rosenthal, Joanne E. Zack
Defendant’s Attorney: Joseph M. Beck, Robert Jay Bernstein, Adam Howard Charnes, Jeffrey A. Conciatori, Daralyn Jeannine Durie, Alex Seth Fonoroff, Joseph C. Gratz, David Floyd McGowan, Melissa J. Miksch, Ronald Lee Raider, Genevieve P Rosloff, David J. Silbert for Google, Inc.
Mark Edward Avsec. Kristin Hackett Neuman and William Irwin Kohn for Canadian Standards Association
Jonathan Band for America Library Association
Anthony D Boccanfuso for Open Book Alliance
Charles Blaine Casper and Richard Montgomery Donaldson, Thomas Cort Rubin for Microsoft Corporation (Objector)
William Francis Cavanaugh, Jr., John Dalton Clopper and Marisa Chun for United States of America
Gary M. Becker for the State of Connecticut
Lynn T. Chu for Writers’ Representatives LLC
Robert William Clarida for Bibliographical Center for Research Rocky Mountain, Inc., et al.
Cindy A. Cohn for Electronic Frontier Foundation et al.
John W. Davis for David Meininger
Andrew C. DeVore and Amin S. Kassam for Arlo Guthrie, et al.
Christina Jacqueline DeVries for Graphic Artists Guild, et al.
Daniel J. Fetterman and Peter Jonathan Toren for Consumer Watchdog (Amicus)
Katherine B Forrest and Mark Lloyd Silverstein for DC Comics (DC Comics)
Martin Garbus for Open Access Trust Inc., et al.
James Taylor Lewis Grimmelmann for New York Law School, Institute for Information Law and Policy
Michael John Guzman for Arthur Herman, et al.
Joseph Solomon Hall, Jennifer Lynch and Ron Lazebnik for American Society of Journalists and Authors, et al.
Derek Tam Ho and Michael K. Kellogg and Kiran Sriram Raj for AT&T CORP. (Objector)
Daniel Joseph Kornstein and Mikaela Ann McDermott for New York Law School, Institute for Information Law and Policy
Ilaria Maggioni for Robert M. Kunstadt
Theodore Conrad Max for Federal Republic of Germany
Elaine Metlin, Victor Sigmund Perlman, Shirley Othmana Saed and Charles D. Ossola for Peter Turner, et al. (Objectors)
Robert C. Micheletto and Nidhi Yadava for Algaida Editores, S.A., et al. (Objectors)
David Nimmer, David A. Zapolsky and Alexander F Wiles for Amazon.com, Inc. (Objector)
Jef Pearlman for Public Knowledge (Amicus)
Nelson E. Roth for Cornell University (Amicus)
Paul S. Rothstein and Matthew Jay Weiss for Darlene Marshall (Objector)
Yasuhiro Saito for Akiko Shimojyu, et al. (Objectors)
Matthew Christian Schruers and Matthew Christian Schrurers for Computer and Communications Industry Association (Amicus)
Rachel Eve Schwartz for David Meininger (Objector)
Alexandra A. E. Shapiro for Schweizer Buchhandler – und Verleger-Verband SBVV (Intervenor)
Babak Siavoshy and Jennifer M. Urban for Digital Humanities Scholars and Law Professors (Amicus)
Edward Frank Siegel for Charles D Weller (Objector)
Sherman Siy for Public Knowledge (Amicus)
Robert Cunningham Turner for Yahoo! Inc. (Objector)
Description: Authors Guild, Inc, et al. sued Google, Inc. on copyright violation theories claiming that Google’s plan to digitally copy millions of books for an online library without their permission constituted copy right violations and should be enjoined by the Court.
Google claimed that its digital library constituted a “fair use” of the materials and moved for dismissal.
Resolution: Motion to dismiss granted.