The Most Important Supreme Court Decision For Data Science and Machine Learning

Author's Guild v. Google has easily set one of the most important precedents for the field of artificial intelligence, and more explicitly, machine learning. Google claimed that its project represented fair use of the data and that its implementation was the equivalent of a digital age card catalog. The Authors Guild of America and the Publishers Association teamed up against Google and a settlement was proposed after several years of litigation. For various reasons, the settlement was rejected on March 22, 2011. The Publishers Association settled with Google, but the lawsuit with the Author's Guild continued.