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Originally Posted by murraypaul
But they are doing so in violation of copyright laws, and throwing their weight around to get their actions legalised. Doesn't that rather go against your arguments that current copyright law is 'working', for whatever definition of working people are using?
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I do view orphaned works as a problem, but don't believe that throwing any suspected / alleged / potential orphaned work into the public domain is an ideal solution.
I also do not support Google's massive violation of copyright, the use of litigation over legislation to fix the issue, or that a solution to orphaned works only be available to Google.
However, their actions do seem to be forcing the issue -- a silver lining.
I believe they can also continue to scan the works, just not use the scans commercially until the titles are in the public domain.