From the McGraw-Hill website:

GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT

The McGraw-Hill Companies along with several other publishers and the Authors Guild sued Google over its Book Search Program in 2005. The parties have now agreed to a comprehensive settlement of the dispute.

The McGraw-Hill Companies supports the settlement agreement and will file claims for those works for which it has copyright and which are subject to the settlement. If you are the author of a McGraw-Hill Companies book that is covered by the settlement agreement, that is currently in print and for which McGraw-Hill holds all rights, you do not need to take action at this time because McGraw-Hill intends to file claims and exercise its rights for your work on its and your behalf. Authors may have rights in addition to rights that The McGraw-Hill Companies may claim including rights in works published by other publishers or in which rights have reverted to the authors. The United States District Court has given preliminary approval to the settlement agreement but objections may be submitted until September 4, 2009.

The McGraw-Hill Companies is not able to respond to individual questions regarding the settlement but encourages you to obtain complete details of the settlement from a special website set up for this purpose: http://www.googlebooksettlement.com. Deadlines and other important information are available on the settlement website.

From the website http://www.googlebooksettlement.com:

Important Update: The Opt-Out Deadline has been extended from May 5, 2009 to Sep 4, 2009 (now called the Extended Opt-Out Deadline). The Final Fairness Hearing has been rescheduled from Jun 11, 2009 to Oct 7, 2009. Click here for more information.

This is the settlement administration website for the Google Book Search Copyright Class Action Settlement. The purpose of this website is to inform you of a proposed Settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and those of other Rightsholders of Books and Inserts (click for definitions), by scanning their Books, creating an electronic database and displaying short excerpts without the permission of the copyright holders. Google denies the claims. The lawsuit is entitled The Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., Case No. 05 CV 8136 (S.D.N.Y.) The Court has preliminarily approved the Settlement. For further information, please review the Notice.

• Claim your Books and Inserts: You can do this at any time, but in order to be eligible for Cash Payments for Books, you must complete your Claim Form on or before January 5, 2010.
• Opt out of the Settlement:Must be submitted online or postmarked on or before September 4, 2009.
• File an objection or notice of intent to appear at the Fairness Hearing: Must be postmarked on or before September 4, 2009.

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