Wednesday’s meeting brought together legal experts such as Hulbert and New York Law School Associate Professor James Grimmelmann, Harvard University Library Director Robert Darnton, member of the Library Implementation Group Deborah J. Weiss, and Director of the Office for Scholarly Communication Stuart M. Shieber.

It was an “exploratory discussion,” Darnton said of Wednesday’s gathering.

—Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Elyssa A.L. Spitzer can be reached at spitzer@fas.harvard.edu.

This article has been revised to reflect the following clarifications:

CLARIFICATIONS: May 13, 2010

An earlier version of the May 6 news article "Harvard Considers Potential Partnership With Google Books" suggested that the University is "considering" a potential relationship with Google Books. To clarify, the meeting discussed in the article was an informal discussion centered around a status update on the Google Book Project lawsuit and settlement, according to University spokesman John Longbrake. The title has been changed to reflect the clarification.

The article also stated that Harvard had agreed to scan 40,000 of its public domain holdings in 2005. To clarify, this figure was part of the pilot project, and the public domain project has actually involved the scanning of hundreds of thousands of Harvard books.