上个月，在曼哈顿法庭上，法官丹尼·金驳回了这样的解决方案，部分原因是对所谓“孤本”书籍数字版的实际垄断权将因此归属谷歌 — — 孤版书是指仍有版权限制、但已不再出版的作品，此类作品已经很难确定其版权归属。
Last month, in a Manhattan court, Judge Denny Chin rejected that proposed settlement, in part because it would have given Google a de facto monopoly over the digital versions of so-called “orphan” books – that is, books that are still in copyright, but no longer in print, and whose copyright ownership is difficult to determine.