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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Authorization to distribute should be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Isn't the whole point of it
not being opt-in to prevent unknown or difficult to track down rights ownership and publisher apathy from basically removing most books from their list?
They might be a private company... but what they are trying to do is most definitely of considerable service to the public. In light of that... why should the publisher that owns rights to over 20,000 books be able to continue to keep all 19,000+ of them out of print by doing nothing... instead of being required to actively opt-out for the 100+ books they actually don't want Google fooling around with because they plan to bring them back into print within the foreseeable future and/or have competing titles on the market?
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