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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Personally I agree with you. I'm just stating what I believe would be the correct action based on current law.
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However, rather than give Google an exception to the current way things work, I think the law itself should be changed.
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That would also be my preference. Though somehow that seems far less realistic to me than the Government ultimately bending over for a huge multimillion dollar company--and the fact that their aims do not appear, at this time, to be entirely malicious is probably beside the point.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
No, I meant that without Google in the picture, a book today that is out-of-print is not making any money for the author. So, if Google does make that book available and pay a pittance to the authors, at least that pittance is more than they would have been getting otherwise.
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Ah. My apologies for the misunderstanding then!
- Ahi