Couldn't they have proposed a neutral party that would store and manage all the books? Just like the Books Rights Registry was going to handle most of the money

Couldn't they have proposed a neutral party that would store and manage all the books? Just like the Books Rights Registry was going to handle most of the money. I suppose that Google didn't expect all that backlash. And, now that I think about, that was out of the scope of the lawsuit as well... In the words of an American president: "Sad!"