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Originally Posted by Shaggy
What is the pittance that rights holders generally receive for out-of-print books. Is it greater than zero?
I would assume that out-of-print books are not generating any revenue for the authors anyway, so I don't really see how they are really losing much. On the other hand, they are losing control (but that was never supposed to be guaranteed by copyright in the first place).
Personally, I think either Google should not have an automatic authorization for out-of-print books, or else everyone should. I'd lean more towards the latter.
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The agreement is that Google can publish and sell out of print works under copyright without compensating the rights-holder?
The pittance is greater than zero, but on a per-book basis, certainly not by much!
And yes, the latter is certainly the sane choice. Though I think you must be mistaken in assuming no compensation is involved.
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