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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
What I was thinking is if an author has an objection to any part of his/her book being used/quoted then Google should graciously make sure that book or any part of it is not findable in a Google search. This includes the title and author's name and if the book is on the author's website then Google should make sure not to link it either because it will show the author's book and the author doesn't want anything to do with Google.
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Yes, I understood that's what you meant. Certainly even if you are doing something legal, good, and within your rights, you might chose to respect someone's wishes and not do that thing, just to be polite or sociable or whatever.
I don't think this should be one of those times.
If what Google is gong is within their rights, if they are NOT infringing on the copyrights of the authors, then it's an important public service in the spirit of why fair use (and copyright itself) exists, and they would be diminishing the value to society if Google acquiesced to an author requesting that Google voluntary curtail their own rights for no good reason.
It would be like a government saying "People desperately need this water supply, and we're properly and responsibly invoking eminent domain to build a pipeline across all your properties and save people's lives. But if you don't like it, just tell us and we'll opt you out, we'll just build around your property, costing millions of dollars extra, years of delay, and costing more lives. You have no legal right to ask us to do that, we just want to be nice."
(Yes, I get that you are suggesting that Google snub them, make them bite off their nose to spite their face, throw the baby out with the bath water, etc, and do it to be mean, not nice, but still...)