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Unfortunately, google has perhaps done irreparable damage already. When Google first made its settlement with the authors guild, there was legislation in congress that would have provided a means and a procedure for orphan works to enter the public domain. But when google and the guild settled the orphan works legislation died in the house. If our politicians were not such corporate lackeys we could have had the library of congress dealing with the orphan works, instead of a corporation and a guild whose thousands of members are trying to circumscribe the rights of millions of nonmembers.