Judge Rules Google's Digital Books Help Arts and Sciences as Digital Card Catalog

Yesterday was a disappointing day for the Authors Guild, whose lawsuit against Google’s scanned digital books was lost after an eight year battle. The Guild is expected to appeal the decision, saying, “Google made unauthorized digital editions of nearly all of the world’s valuable copyright-protected literature and profits from displaying those works. In our view, such mass digitization and exploitation far exceeds the bounds of the fair use defense.”