"Let's be clear: I'm delighted that Google has figured out a way to bring back orphan works -- I just wish that the Authors Guild and Publishers' Association had the foresight to understand that vesting all this power with one firm (even one I admire as much as Google) was disastrous policy.
I also disagree with the idea that scanning books for the purpose of indexing them is illegal -- making a copy of a copyrighted work in order to generate an index is fair use, and it takes place billions of times every day, as search engines crawl the web (itself made up of largely copyrighted works), doing exactly that."
Google is doing everything in its power to become more powerful. The failure lies with the arrogance of the Authors Guild:
a collection of 10,000 writers who had the gall to negotiate this deal on behalf of every writer, living and dead, all over the world
The failure lies with the US legal system that thinks it has the right to rule on this issue.
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