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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I think it's more than that. Even the legislature is being used for the perversion of copyright law, not in support of the public good, but rather in support of the interests of big business.
Individuals, including many authors, are getting screwed from both directions.
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It's one big business taking advantage of the huge gap left by the greediness of another set of big businesses. On the other hand, it will make works available that should have been in the public domain anyway, if it hadn't been for the greedy reaching of the Hollywood set of big businesses in the first place.
To me, I can't get mad at anything that Google makes available that was published pre-1954, as under the copyright laws that were in place at the time they were created, they would have fallen in the public domain anyway. After 1954, that's another question....
(When dinosaurs fight, a lot of ground gets plowed for free....)