"The rejection of the Google settlement has raised the profile of a leading alternative being promoted by Robert Darnton, a Harvard history professor and director of the university library, and a long-term critic of the Google settlement. "Darnton's idea is for charitable foundations to fund a digital analogue to the Library of Congress, freely available to all citizens and accessible to anyone within reach of the Internet. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has agreed to play a leading role. "'Now that the settlement seems to have unraveled, this looks like a serious alternative,' Darnton told me."
Michael Hiltzik in the Los Angeles Times considers Google, digital books, and copyright law.
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