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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I hardly see how what Google is doing is in the "spirit" of copyright. It's in the spirit of Google securing itself as a primary, if not exclusive, repository of digital information, no matter whose rights have to get trampled in the process.
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I believe zelda's point was about the spirit of the original purposes for copyright law, not what it has evolved in to. Under the original spirit of copyright law, most of the out-of-print titles that Google is interested in would have already been in the public domain anyway.