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Originally Posted by tenebrae
No, copyright LAW says Google handled it wrong. They have to ask permission first. It is a legal requirement. It doesn't matter if you think the law is right or wrong; that doesn't change the fact that it is what is is.
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The law is not absolute. That's why we have courts and trial by jury.
The law is not kept by law enforcement groups, but rather by the majority of the people believing the law is just. When a law is unjust, people ignore it - and there's no amount of law enforcement in the world that can make people believe it's just.
Copyright holders (again, not authors) are finding this hard to understand.
They will have to understand or fail. A work that isn't published is a work that makes no money - which means that the work is worthless to the copyright holder. A work that is published under an unjust law with restrictive DRM will be pirated - since that's the only choice they leave to the public.