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Old 03-31-2020, 04:21 PM   #3
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This will likely fan the flames of the what's fair debate
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/0...gency_library/
I have already seen reports that copyright owners are outraged....
Thank You!

I noticed the "open library" at Archive , org some time ago and wondered how it was run.
I hadn't realised it was just blatant copyright violation, far beyond what Google was allowed, which actually was bought. Why does Google need to scan an entire copyright work to produce a web snippet? I think we can all work out why. Also the "snippet" is disingenuous as tests show that Google has OCRed entire copyright text and will respond to ANY unique text in the book. The results often come higher than sellers of the book.

We stopped selling via Google Books/Playstore because we were unhappy about how Google did the preview (with Amazon and Smashwords it's a percentage from the start).

I'm just wondering is there some connection between Google and the Internet Archive?
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