Google, book scanning, and fair use

Ars Technica has an article about the recent ruling that book scanning is fair use.

First paragraph:

The Author's Guild has suffered another major setback in its fight to stop Google's ambitious book-scanning project. The Guild lost a key ally when Google settled with a coalition of major publishers last week. Now a judge has ruled that the libraries who have provided Google with their books to scan are protected by copyright's fair use doctrine. While the decision doesn't guarantee that Google will win—that's still to be decided in a separate lawsuit—the reasoning of this week's decision bodes well for Google's case. (cont)

Case: THE AUTHORS GUILD, INC., et al., v. HATHITRUST
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Case 1:11-cv-06351-HB Document 156 Filed 10/10/12
Available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/109647049/HathiTrust-Opinion

Google plans to Sell E-Books in 2010

Google announced that it plans to sell E-books through a new service called Google Editions by the end of June or July 2010. Pricing and publishers have not been identified. Currently, Google is waiting for a decision from Judge Denny Chin about the rights to distribute out-of-print books through its digital book settlement with publishers and authors. Stay tuned!!

Google Book Settlement

http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/google_book_settlement/

This site presents a useful timeline with pros and cons about the settlement.
Includes links to documents and other stories of note.

Further, richly detailed information is found at http://thepublicindex.org/.
The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the
Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School.