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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Google aren't the only people who wouldn't pay the author a dime if the material weren't copyrighted.
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Of course not. But the point is that Google are now promoting their text to speech to Google Books Publishing Accounts as a solution to publish Audiobooks. Google are scanning everything without paying any royalty or getting permission. Successfully lobbied in USA to get the previously illegal activity made legal.
No-one is going to pay sufficiently dead people and despite some USA local laws/procedures the default is that copyright is automatic, no need to register, as soon as a work is created.
It lasts too long after death, but that's a different issue.