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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
Isn't that just the settlement that was rejected by the courts ages ago? If so, I'd hardly call that the current proposal.
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Have they published a more recent one?
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So it seems as though the digitization of books and making them searchable is reasonably supported by current copyright law. The orphan works issue wasn't adjudicated in the above decision.
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Significant differences between this at the Google books settlement is that it had a clear sole non-commercial research purpose, which would weigh heavily in the fair use balancing act.
The 'works' being offered were the indexes of the original works, they were not selling full copies of the works.
This was a much easier case to win.