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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Regardless of what any agreement may have been interpreted as giving them (Google) the right to do, no one with any sense believed that Google was ever intending to sell copyrighted works that they didn't hold the rights to sell.
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Actually, the settlement gave them blanket rights to exploit orphan books so long as they held a fraction of the revenue in case the copyright holders squawked. That was why there was such a big fuss over the "land-grab"; the idea that publishing is an affirmative act by the rights holder and not a default they need to opt-out from.
http://blog.librarylaw.com/libraryla...ign-works.html