Which is interesting as this is precisely what the Guild were hoping to prevent using a slippery slope argument i.e. Google might not be taking money from them

Which is interesting as this is precisely what the Guild were hoping to prevent using a slippery slope argument i.e. Google might not be taking money from them but others scanning the whole work could. Equally, the original agreement between the Guild and Google would have amounted to an effective monopoly but the Guild were fine with that as their authors were getting paid. In this case, it seems that the courts walked a line between the 2 vested interests and produced an outcome that may well lead to a greater good in the long term.