[darryl]

Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

I wouldn't say hysterical. How about displeased?

https://www.authorsguild.org/industr...-high-and-dry/



Will the published authors on the court recuse themselves? Not likely. Too few justices would be left. But that seems to me a good reason not to take the case.

The assumption that Judges are going to act in their own self interests in preference to the law comes up quite frequently on these forums, and is simply not justified in almost all cases. I'm not sure if you believe published authors on the Court should recuse themselves in this instance. However, I doubt it would matter, even if all Judges were prepared to act in such a fashion. I suspect that any traditionally published judge, no matter how eminent and respected, is making a similar pittance to most other traditionally published authors. Even for a Judge prepared to act in such a fashion, there is just not enough money involved!

The resistance to what Google is trying to do here is a classic example of intellectual property laws, at least as big publishing wants them interpreted, acting against the public interest.