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Originally Posted by bowerbird
so, as far as i know, just to give you one example,
books from the michigan library that google scans
will be hosted by michigan. and the stanford scans
will be hosted by stanford. and the harvard scans
will be hosted by harvard, and on and on and on...
is that massively stupid, or what?
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It may be recognition that to share the without express permission would, in many cases, be a violation of copyrights.
I'm not prepared to assume that they are all in a position to undertake securing that permission.