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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The settlement isn't dead, and I don't believe Google have ever renounced it.
The case now goes back to Judge Chin to continue.
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That settlement agreement assumed that the Authors' Guild could represent authors as a class. In this latest loss for the Guild, the subject of this thread, the appeals court disallowed class status for authors (at least pending determination of Google's Fair Use argument). If the Guild can't represent all authors as a class then they cannot settle litigation on their behalf.