The judge overseeing the case ruled that three individual authors and the Author’s Guild could represent the class of all authors whose works had been scanned by Google. Google had sought the opposite result, arguing that including all authors in a single lawsuit would make the case too complex, and that most authors actually supported the scanning project.
Much more:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/google-dealt-blow-in-book-scanning-lawsuit/
