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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
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.
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I certainly agree that that is the only sane way of looking at it, and hopefully it will kill off that portion of the settlement for good.