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Judge rejects Google's attempt to create a universal library

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Google's vision of a universal library archiving all books ever published on Earth is once again at odds with laws protecting the authors of those books. A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a settlement deal Google hammered out with publishers over its controversial Google Books archive, saying the proposed agreement went too far in giving Google control over the digitalization of books.

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Bob_Robertson ·
More exceptions, more convolutions, more stress.

"Orphaned" works are much worse than it is intimated in this article. I know that the folks at Mises.org, who also try to put out-of-print works online, are often blocked from putting up works for which the copyright holder simply does not exist, but is still within "copyright" time limits.

Their experience is that putting these esoteric texts online in forms that can be searched causes the dead-tree version sales to _increase_.

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