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• Article 1: Definitions
• Article 2: Benefits
• Article 3: Google Rights/Obligations
  • § 3.1: Digitization
  • § 3.2: Initial Classification
  • § 3.3: Display Books
  • § 3.4: No Display Books
  • § 3.5: Removal, Exclusion
  • § 3.6: Technical Adaptations
  • § 3.7: Contemplated Services
  • § 3.8: Effect of Other Agreements
  • § 3.9: Distribution Arrangements
  • § 3.10: Specific Prohibitions
  • § 3.11: Hosted Versions
  • § 3.12: Use of Digital Copies
  • § 3.13: Rightsholder Directions
  • § 3.14: Advertising Uses
  • § 3.15: Extent of Rights
• Article 4: Economic Terms
  • § 4.1: Institutional Subscriptions
  • § 4.2: Consumer Purchases
  • § 4.3: Preview Uses
  • § 4.4: Advertising
  • § 4.5: Revenue Splits
  • § 4.6: Payment Terms
  • § 4.7: New Reveue Models
  • § 4.8: Public Access Service
  • § 4.9: Terms Renegotiation
• Article 5: Other Benefits
• Article 6: Registry
• Article 7: Library Rights/Obligations
  • § 7.1: Library Participation
  • § 7.2: Participating Library Uses
  • § 7.3: Google’s Obligations
  • § 7.4: Collective Rights
  • § 7.5: Meetings
  • § 7.6: When Libraries are Bound
• Article 8: Security and Breach
  • § 8.1: Obligations
  • § 8.2: Security Standard
  • § 8.3: Breaches in General
  • § 8.4: Non-Access Breaches
  • § 8.5: Access Breaches
  • § 8.6: Third-Party Violations
  • § 8.7: Adjustments to Liability
• Article 9: Dispute Resolution
• Article 10: Releases
• Article 11: Preliminary Approval
• Article 12: Class Notice Program
• Article 13: Settlement Administration
• Article 14: Final Fairness Hearing
• Article 15: Confidentiality
• Article 16: Right to Terminate
• Article 17: Miscellaneous

Attachments:

• A: Author-Publisher Procedures
• B: Library-Registry Agreements
  • B1: Fully-Participating
  • B2: Cooperating
  • B3: Public-Domain
• C: Plan of Allocation
• D: Security Standard
• E: Public Domain Safe Harbor
• F: Preview Uses
• G: Approved Libraries
• H: Proposed Order
• I: Notice of Settlement
• J: Summary of Settlement
• K: Paid Media Schedule
• L: Proposed Final Judgment
• M: Publisher-Google Settlement