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I agree with all that, but I still think the notion that you could bargain away someone else's copyrights via a settlement to a class action lawsuit is insane.
by TillE 16y ago
I agree with all that, but I still think the notion that you could bargain away someone else's copyrights via a settlement to a class action lawsuit is insane.
At least that's how I understand it. A bunch of publishers sued Google, and they wanted to negotiate terms for essentially all authors everywhere. No, sorry. It really shouldn't work like that.
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- dantheman 16y agoOr congress will carve out an exception say that copyright doesn't apply to books when used in search, and that search engines and archives can display X amount of the work per search, and an official orphaned works list can be maintained by the LOC and when a work is orphaned it enters the public domain. Copyright, and IP in general, is a farce and full of weird exceptions and rules.