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Google has scanned the entire book, for their own purposes. That's a copyright violation.
If I went to the library, copied an entire book, and then went around the neighborhood handing out handfuls of pages to everyone, with ads on the bottom of the pages, would that be legal? Hey, any one person can only read a little bit of the book, right? What, can't do the ads there? Ok... I'll remove the ads, and umm, put them on a website which lists which books I've copied. Happy now? No? Ok... what if I share some of my ad revenue with the publisher (who, by the way, != the copyright holder)? Cool now? Ok, why don't you just tell me how much money I need to spread around to whom to make you forget that what I'm doing is against the law?
It's the initial act that is illegal - anything that comes after doesn't alter that basic fact, and is mere rationalization.
Last edited by Taylor514ce; 06-05-2008 at 05:23 PM.
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