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On May 20, 2009, at 3:47 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: >> I don't see how bashing Google (which is NOT what the >> library association briefs are doing, btw) for gaps in US >> and international Copyright Law(orphan works, for example) >> will end up helping libraries. > > i think the concern is that the settlement could give > _only_ Google the right to scan orphaned works, and no > one else. that certainly wouldn't help libraries. Yes, that is what I am hearing too. Google has all but gotten the right to digitize orphan works to the exclusion of others like libraries or the Internet Archive. -- Eric Morgan