After Google Book Search: Rebooting the Digital Library

After more than a year of silence, on March 22, 2011, Judge Denny Chin rejected the proposed settlement in the Google book search (“GBS”) case. In the court’s view, the innovative settlement asked more than U.S. class-action rules could deliver and would, in Judge Chin’s words “simply go too far.” The settlement not only resolved possible liability issues for past acts by Google but would also have put in place an extensive forward