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Originally Posted by DavidI
I whole heartedly agree with Elfwreck. If anyone can get Congress to update the copyright laws it is Google.
My only fear is that it might be too late. If Google gets Congress to change laws allowing them (or anyone) to publish orphaned works then there will be screaming. The claim will be be that big evil Google is buying off Congress and getting Congress to give them the rights to millions of author's works. It won't matter if Congress is giving "everyone" access to orphaned works while insuring authors are still compensated. The narrative will be that Google is buying Congress and getting them to do what Google couldn't get done through the courts.
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Yeah, well, the screaming hasn't bothered Disney.
If Google wants to take this on, I'd buy all my books from them, OCR errors and all.