8 July 2013
In a major blow to the Authors Guild, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit has vacated Judge Denny Chin's 2011 ruling granting the organization class action status in its suit to stop Google's library scanning project. Read more
'A projection back of modern sensibilities'
‘It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to write a character well in the past who is not a projection back of modern sensibilities. My defence would be that the 16th century was the time when rational, sceptical inquiry was beginning. This was the age of the humanists: we're leaving medieval thought patterns behind. Read more