Are Google’s rights under the Settlement Agreement exclusive or non-exclusive?
Rights granted to Google and the Participating Libraries are non-exclusive only, and Rightsholders have every right to authorize, through the Registry or otherwise, any individual or entity, including direct competitors of Google, to use their works in any way, including ways identical to Google’s and the Participating Libraries’ authorized uses. Rights and authorizations granted to Google and the Participating Libraries are not transfers of copyright ownership to those works, and nothing in the Settlement Agreement shall operate to transfer any copyright ownership interests in Rightsholders’ works.
