One point raised in the article concerns the fact that they are not making antiques available:
"The authors said books from nearly every nation have been digitized, including thousands of works published in 2001 in China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom, and hundreds from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, The Netherlands, The Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam."
2001 is a bit soon to claim that many works as "orphaned" and way too short even in the earliest versions of copyright life...
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