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4 unusual facts about Authors Guild


Authors Guild v. HathiTrust

Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (2012) is a lawsuit in which the American Authors Guild claimed that the HathiTrust digital library had violated copyright.

Book Rights Registry

The Book Rights Registry is an entity to be founded as part of a settlement of the lawsuit between the Authors Guild and Google over the Google Books scanning project.

Charles Frankel

He was a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Association of University Professors (chair of committee on professional ethics), the Institut International de Philosophie Politique, the Authors Guild, the Century Association, and the Phi Beta Kappa society.

Plot It Yourself

In Plot It Yourself, Stout draws on his lengthy experience with book publishers, with authors (via, for example, his presidency of the Authors Guild), and with the writing process itself.


Laura Pedersen

She teaches at the Booker T. Washington Learning Center in East Harlem, belongs to the Authors Guild, the international literary association P.E.N., and is an honorary member of the Twentieth Century Club.


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Google Book Search Settlement Agreement

On November 14, 2013 the case, Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc. (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 05-08136), was dismissed by U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan.