Now that the Authors Guild has lost its copyright challenge to the Google Books project, its longtime general counsel is stepping down.
The Authors Guild announced on Thursday that Jan Constantine is leaving her position as GC on April 29. Constantine’s more than 10 years as GC largely overlapped with the Authors Guild’s lawsuit alleging Google Inc. engaged in copyright infringement by scanning books for a digital library. The case came to an end on Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court decision that Google is shielded by the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement.
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