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Originally Posted by GeoffR
That site scans books without the copyright holder's permission, it is up to the copyright holder to send a takedown notice. The authors are not being paid for any borrows. It is really just a pirate site dressed up as a library I think.
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Thank you for that valuable piece of information.
I had gotten the _impression_ that the Open Library held to the highest ethical standards, etc. However--and I have gone on record saying this--regardless of what the law might say, I think that it should be _the website's_ responsibility to secure _permission_ before posting a copyrighted item, rather than the copyright holder's to ask a website to take it down! There is much more that I'd like to say about this matter, but I'm afraid that if I did, readers would ignore my whole post.