Libraries Urge CCC to Reconsider its Funding of E-Reserve Copyright Case - Copyright Clearance Center in Publishers Back pocket?

Libraries Urge CCC to Reconsider its Funding of E-Reserve Copyright Case:

"Kevin Smith, scholarly communications officer at Duke University, who has followed the case closely from the start, was unable to say what is keeping the case from being settled. “The only answer to why [there hasn’t been a settlement],” he told PW, “is that one party or the other is not motivated enough to do so.”"

Reading between the lines and applying a healthy dose of cynicism, its seems to me that the CCC is selling its street cred as a "good faith intermediary" to the publishing industry to use at it wishes.