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And it all loops back to start of the thread. Great Best Seller of a decade ago rights cannot be sorted out, so no e-book can be produced and sold in all markets (or not at all). Pirate A wants a soft copy. So he/she scans a copy and after a week's work, releases it into the wild so other readers of GBS don't have to spend a weeks time per person to scan it themselves.
Meanwhile, the rightsholders of GBS, who can't sort out the issues, scream bloody murder at Pirate A, stating he/she is denying them a bazillion dollars in sales - while on the other side of the mouth saying there isn't enough money in that old GBS to pay the lawyers to sort out the rights. And the rights need to be extended so it never goes into the public domain, lest they lose a cent of a possible sale...
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