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Books in the Digital Age: A Case Study (Spring 2016)
Section 7

Week 7 (March 10): Class certification

Tom Rubin

The digital age offers the promise of democratizing creativity and providing creators with unprecedented opportunity to build audiences and distribute works how and where they see fit. The class action issues in the Google Books case highlighted the heterogeneous nature of creators today. We will look at the interests and arguments that led to class certification being granted by the district court and then overturned on appeal. Guest: Mary Rasensberger, Executive Director at The Authors Guild

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