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Originally Posted by rlauzon
You are getting off the discussion. The discussion is whether Google's book database would help. Not whether or not Amazon actually applies that information.
And the only person who can give the permission for a work to be copied is the copyright holder - whether or not the work is in an electronic format.
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Don't try that on me. I brought the topic of the database up, because it's clear that Amazon's filtering, if any, is hopelessly inadequate. The point I made stands.
And your second paragraph is plain incorrect. It's perfectly possible to give that right to other parties (exclusively or non-exclusively), and seperately for print and electronic forms...and for a miriad of divisions of such. Ask a published author.
Abecedary - Remember I'm talking about the database which identifies rights holders, not the content of the books themselves. Although I'd actually argue that Google should have to provide the database of rights holders for the public for any use in return for what they're getting in the settlement.