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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Not to mention that Google has a pretty serious ebook store in addition to the archive project. They never had any intention of selling copies of copyrighted books they were scanning. That would be silly. No lawyer could have spun that into a legal venture. It was always an archival/search project.
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Right up until the Authors Guild sued them. The first settlement agreement would have given Google rights to sell anything they wanted to after scanning it. That over broad settlement was rightly thrown out by the judge.
Greg