Wikipedia: "According to the Settlement Agreement, the Registry will own and maintain a rights information database for all books (and parts of books) covered by the Agreement and their authors and publishers. It will also resolve disputes between rightsh
Huffington Post, October 13, 2009. Responding to Sergey Brin's OpEd in NYT, : " Unlike the Alexandria library or modern public libraries, the Google Book Search (GBS) initiative is a commercial venture that aims to monetize millions of out-of-print books,
Publisher's Weekly By Peter Brantley | Nov 29, 2013 "It is hard to understand what the Authors Guild hopes to achieve by continuing the litigation. In a dramatically changing landscape where authors can now easily self-publish, bypassing existing publishing houses, yet where a new ecosystem supporting the creative arts does not wholly exist, can the guild not find more pressing needs on which to spend its time and resources than the digitization of out-of-print library books?"