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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
For living authors, how is it piracy at all? Why wouldn't they want Google to provide at least a scanned portion of their book? That way they can allow people to find their books and possibly buy a copy.
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Sounds a lot like the argument that sharing copes of music tracks helps the artists because more people will discover them, and possibly buy an album, doesn't it?
What gives Google the right to make that decision for authors? If they simply wanted to make a useful service, they would have made it opt-in rather than opt-out.