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Originally Posted by murraypaul
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OK, interesting read.
There are a lot of safeguards in there, so it seems to boil down to whether you consider default opt-in or default opt-out to be the one with the right balance between fair and practical.
Consider, if opt-in was the default then no orphaned works would be included. There would be no sales and no marketing of the work. Obscure work would be made no less obscure.
With opt-out, as here, a rightsholder who didn't spot that their work was included would lose out - exactly as if opt-in was the default, yet their obscure work may well become less obscure. And if, as is more likely, they realised the work was up in Google Books then they could choose to opt out or take the money.
Graham