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This article is an early announcement of the Authors Guild's lawsuit against the HathiTrust Digital Library. It explains the accusations of copyright infringement from the Authors Guild, who seek the complete halt of the HathiTrust's reproduction and distribution of digitized works, not limited to the Orphan Works project.

Matthew Ingram discusses the recent ruling on the Author's Guild's copyright infringement lawsuit. The author points out the decisive nature of the ruling, and goes on to explain the reasons that the project clearly falls under the protection of fair use. He argues that this ruling follows the intent of copyright law, to promote research and knowledge.

This extensive resource packet provides detailed information regarding the HathiTrust lawsuit. The writer is in favor of the defendants, arguing in various ways the lawfulness and usefuleness of the project.

This article explains the dispute between Google and publishers here in the United States. As we have seen in class, Google Books offers internet users the ability to search through their database of scanned books. Publishers are fighting that Google is violating copyright laws by scanning these books and letting people have free open access. Although the project itself is causing an uproar, publishers as well as authors are being given the opportunity to decide what books are included in this project.