Post-Mortem Panel on Authors Guild v. Google Hearing
Wednesday, December 3, 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 206
The Authors Guild lawsuits against Google and its library partners (brought separately as Authors Guild, Inc. v. HathiTrust) have set much of the stage for how U.S. copyright law impacts efforts to mass digitize book collections. On December 3, 2014 at 2:00 p.m., the Second Circuit will hear argument in the appeal of Authors Guild v. Google, where Judge Denny Chin granted judgment in favor of Google, finding that its book digitizing activities were fair use under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act.
The panel will commence after the hearing concludes, starting at approximately 4:00 p.m. (or, if the hearing runs late, as soon as the participants are able to arrive) and focus on the contents of the appeal, including the questions presented, the briefing, the argument, and the implications for any certiorari petition to the Supreme Court.
Featured speakers include Greg Cram, Associate Director of Copyright and Information Policy, New York Public Library; Jeremy Goldman, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Slez PC, Counsel for the Authors Guild; Joseph Gratz, Durie Tangrie LLP (Counsel for Google); Corynne McSherry, Intellectual Property Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Professor Jason Schultz, Director, Technology Law & Policy Clinic and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy; and Fred von Lohmann, Legal Director for Copyright, Google.
Background on the case is available on Wikipedia.
Co-sponsored by the New York Public Library.
This event is open to the general public.