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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
What I find the most problematic it how this out-of-court settlement of a C-A Lawsuit should really only apply to American authors, or works published by US-based publishers. It's pretty hard to see how non-americans gain from this, even if they can technically sign up for reimbursement/opt-out, etc.
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What I'm a little confused about is that if you were not part of the Plaintiffs, then how does this settlement apply? A group of Plaintiffs sued for copyright infringement, and then they settled with Google. If you were not part of that original case, then why can't you, as an author, also sue Google for copyright infringement. How is somebody completely independent of the original case forced to agree with the terms of the settlement?