The Authors Guild simply won‘t give up on its quixotic attack on modern technology. Even after losing both of its book scanning cases — one against the Hathitrust (a collection of university libraries) and the other against Google — it appealed both rulings. This morning, the ruling in the first of those cases, the Hathitrust one, came out, and it pretty much demolished the Authors Guild‘s arguments, finding, yet again, that book scanning like this is clearly fair use, though for slightly different reasons than the lower court. But there is plenty of useful stuff in the ruling. First, the court explored whether having a full-text searchable database of all text is fair use and found overwhelming support for that idea: