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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Google unquestionably has the right to scan PD books and charge you to access them.
They do not have the right to say that "because we scanned these books, we now have the copyright." Nor are they making any such claim.
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They do claim a copyright in the scanned images.
Which is probably bogus, but there is no federally settled law on the subject, and who wants to take Google to court? Especially as they might win, which would have wide ramifications.