To date, Google has scanned 12 million books, mostly without the permission of rightsholders. (activitypress.com)
-- The Book Rights Registry that Google and the plaintiffs had agreed to establish will search for rightsholders who have not yet come forward and to hold revenue on their behalf. (computerworld.com)
«Libraries shall acquire digital copies of works in their collections only from rightsholders or their licensing agencies» but not from «Agents, publishers, aggregators, retailers, and libraries» (slaw.ca)