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Originally Posted by Shaggy
IMO, they better. When they let people upload books without checking them, and then turn around and sell them, Amazon is also responsible for any copyright infringement. There's a big difference between an ISP just hosting user's material versus a retailer actively selling uploaded content.
I think Amazon definitely has some responsibility here to make sure that content they are selling is authorized before they do so. Whether the content on their store comes from their internal business units, or from uploaders, doesn't matter. Since they are the ones selling/distributing it, they need to verify it.
Personally, I think the whole idea of "you upload it and we'll sell it" was poorly thought out.
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And how exactly are they going to check every book uploaded? They can't just check the title and author. The whole book has to be checked for copyright material, and what are you going to check it against? There's no master database containing the text of every book currently under copyright, and that's what would be required to actually check uploads for copyright violations.
Carl