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Old 09-10-2009, 03:11 PM   #3
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Bah! Humbug!
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
This is a pretty radical promise made by Google:

CNET:


And Amazon behaves like a twit:

Now, it does seem somewhat odd to me that they would only announce this now (as it seems to muddy the debate rather badly, which makes you wonder what they're distracting you from), but..
Anyway, at this time it is unclear from the news articles (to me) whether this access would apply to all works scanned by them, or only the non-orphan works, but it still seems like a grand gesture.
I have to agree - it seems to me they only announced this when they had to - to answer some of the lawsuits/objections being brought against the proposed settlement. Why not be upfront if Google intended to share the profit all along? Not quite a grand gesture if concessions need to be pulled out during a protracted legal battle.
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