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Old 09-03-2009, 07:46 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga View Post
How does that justify copyright infringement and/or granting Google a special exemption from existing copyright law? Especially on the authority of a small special interest group like the Author's Guild?...
I have to agree with this.

The end result may, or may not be, beneficial to all of us, but this just seems whacky to me.

I suppose, Amazon can do the same thing, and have a 300-persons writers group in the wings, ready to hammer out a settlement on behalf of all of the world's scribblers....
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