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This is a letter written to Judge Denny Chin, the judge presiding over the Author's Guild v Google suit, requesting a conference with respect to a motion to intervene in the suit.
The moving parties are Lewis Hyde, Harry Lewis and the Open Access Trust.
they seek to intervene in order to "represent the community of readers, scholars, and teachers who use orphaned works" and "defend our interest in orphaned works — to defend the public domain’s claim to free, fair use." The moving parties " think that this case and the constitutional issues of national moment that it presents will be better resolved if the public domain has a seat at the table."