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Originally Posted by fjtorres
PD books are not at issue in this case.
The issue is Google making money (in several ways) off books that are under copyright without asking permission and adopting an opt-out model, putting the onus on the copyright owner to *individually* fight Google.
Obscurity is irrelevant: If the copyright owner wants them to languish in obscurity, that is their right to decide and not Google's. Especially since their motivation is commercial.
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Ah, but how many of those authors want their books to languish in obscurity? I'm not lobbying for or against what Goggle has or might have done, just posing the questions.