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There's an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal about Google being investigated for antitrust because of all the books they are scanning, though they did do a big settlement on this last year with publishers.
This thread reminds me that Amazon also wishes to get into the copyright control business, and not be dependent on Google. In fact, presumably Amazon may be one of the complainers about Google's scanning! That makes the government action a little more intelligible ---- I always thought it was great Google is scanning EVERYthing right down to people's grocery lists on the refrigerator, but Amazon wants to offer content electronically also.
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