According to Reuters, Google has beaten back the Author's Guild regarding the helter-skelter scanning of books by the search giant in conjunction with the big libraries. The article begins:
Google Inc. notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world's largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that had allowed authors challenging the project to sue as a group. A panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said Circuit Judge Denny Chin prematurely certified a class of authors without first deciding if the "fair use" defense under U.S. copyright law allowed Google to display snippets of books.
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