. >> sarah weinman, recently in the "new york times," robert darton wrote that the decision is a victory for the public good but insisted quote we should not abandon google's dream in making all of the books in the world available to everyone. we should build a digital public library that would provide free of charge to readers. is there any viability to that? has anyone -- >> sounds like a wonderful idea. the only entity that has stepped up is google. especially with the current economic state of play, the priority for a digital public library that wasn't already in progress i suspect is not the highest of priorities. already look at the money that's been spent on the right the alone. or in a best case scenario taken up. who will it be taken up by? as a result, google with the tremendous market cap that they have were really one the other corporations, or only entity, public or private that had the clout and muscle to be able to make this happen. ultimately, that was why a settlement was a good idea. they recognize there is value in the work that google did. they wanted to at least get

. >> sarah weinman recently in the "new york times" robert darton who's the director of the harvard university library wrote that the decision is a victory for the public good but insisted, quote, we should not abandon google's dream of making all the books in the world available to everyone. instead, we should build a digital public library which would provide these digital copies free of charge to readers. is there any viability to that? has anyone stepped up -- >> it sounds like a wonderful idea. yeah, the only -- the only entity that stepped up is google. and, unfortunately, especially with the current economic state of play, the priority for a digital public library that wasn't already in progress i suspect is not the highest of priorities. i mean, already look at the money that's just been spent on the rights registry alone which may have to be abandoned in a worse case scenario. or in a best case scenario taken up but then who will it be taken up by? so as a result google was the tremendous market cap that they have were really one of the only corporations or only entities public or pri