A Publishers Weekly story by Andrew Albanese reports “The New York Law School is launching a Web site dedicated to the Google Book Search settlement that will include discussion forums, a comprehensive archive of settlement documents and related commentary, and a tool for users to insert their own analyses and commentary on individual paragraphs of the proposed settlement.”

The project — called the “Public Index” — is being run by NYLS professor James Grimmelmann, and will include an “open source amicus brief” to be submitted to the court. Grimmelmann says the site is a response to “the enormous public interest in the lawsuit,” while PW notes that, well, the effort is being underwritten by “Google competitor Microsoft.”