a site to study and discuss the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Here, you can browse and annotate the settlement, section-by-section. The Public Index is a project of the Public-Interest Book Search Initiative and the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School. The Public Index is led by Professor James Grimmelmann. The Public Index is made possible by a grant from Microsoft.
Alliance members fear the Google Book Search Settlement will restore access to millions of out-of-print books and will one day make Google a virtual digital library monopoly.... Google has been scanning the pages of those [orphan works] and others as part of its plan to bring a digital library and bookstore to computer screens across the United States.