AUTHORS GUILD, INC. v. GOOGLE INC.

Docket No. 12-3200-cv.

721 F.3d 132 (2013)

The AUTHORS GUILD, INC., Associational Plaintiff, Betty Miles, Joseph Goulden, and Jim Bouton, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintifs-Appellees, v. GOOGLE INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: July 1, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth P. Waxman ( Louis R. Cohen , Randolph D. Moss , Daniel P. Kearney, Jr. , Ari Holtzblatt , on the brief) Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for Appellant Google Inc.

Daralyn J. Durie , Joseph C. Gratz , Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Appellant Google Inc.

Robert J. Larocca , Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees The Authors Guild Inc., et al.

Michael J. Boni , Joshua D. Snyder , John E. Sindoni , Boni & Zack LLC, Bala Cynwyd, PA, for Appellees The Authors Guild Inc., et al.

Sanford P. Dumain , Milberg LLP, New York, NY, for Appellees The Authors Guild Inc., et al.

Before: LEVAL, CABRANES, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Plaintiff-appellee The Authors Guild, an association of authors, as well as several individual authors (jointly, "plaintiffs"), began this suit in 2005, alleging that defendant-appellant Google Inc. ("Google") committed copyright infringement through the Library Project of its "Google Books" search tool by scanning and indexing more than 20 million books and making available for public display "snippets" of most books upon a user's search.

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