Google has won a delay in the copyright lawsuit against it from the Authors Guild, which sued the company over its efforts to scan millions of books and make passages from them available online.
Bloomberg reports that U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond Lohier of the U.S. Circuit Appeals in Manhattan granted Google's request to stay a lower-court trial while the company appeals a decision that will allow the plaintiffs to sue as a class.
The trial in the long-running Google / Author's Guild lawsuit has been delayed again.
(Credit: Google)Google argued successfully that courts should first determine whether the plaintiffs should be allowed to sue as a class. In June, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin granted class-action status to the case. But Google is appealing, saying many authors covered by the suit want their work included in Google's search engine.
Last month, Chin ordered proceedings in the 7-year-old case to continue. Lohier's ruling reverses that order.
Google has scanned more than 12 million books for its digitization project. The Authors Guild has argued that if Google is found liable for copyright infringement, the company will owe between $750 and $30,000 per work.
The long-running case was nearly resolved last year when the parties reached a $125 million settlement. But Chin overturned the settlement after the Department of Justice expressed concern it would reduce competition in the digital book marketplace.
Casey Newton 18 Sep, 2012
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