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Some Raise Alarms as Google Resurrects Out-of-Print Books
>From Today's NY Times:
"The dusty stacks of the nation's great university and research
libraries are full of orphans - books that the author and
publisher have essentially abandoned...Now millions of orphan
books may get a new legal guardian...Google. But a growing chorus
is complaining that a far-reaching settlement of a suit brought
against Google by publishers and authors is about to grant the
company too much power over orphan works."
Full text at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN