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"In his ruling, Chin hinted that he would look more favorably on an "opt-in" settlement—e.g. one that applied only to those authors and publishers who explicitl
by itg 16y ago
"In his ruling, Chin hinted that he would look more favorably on an "opt-in" settlement—e.g. one that applied only to those authors and publishers who explicitly chose to accept it."
Seems reasonable. The whole opt-out design gave too much power to google, and everybody already knows what a massive pain it is to get in touch with google if a problem arises.
- ghshephard 16y agoThe problem, of course, is that the works most likely to benefit from the settlement, those that are orphaned or abandoned, will have no-one to opt-in for them. Works that aren't orphaned have already opted in - just go to amazon.com. :-)