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Anthony Williams wrote:
As I say I have copyright material out in the wild that I couldnt even name. The law protected me when I did it - no-one else could publish it without my permission. So I didnt register it or make myself traceable by it. And Google are presumably assuming that everyone in the world is watching the goings on in a court in new yok. Its like a burglar saying 'well you didnt specifically write dont steal me on these things'On 04/02/10 08:56, tom wrote:I've been thinking about this Google Book Agreement and am starting to get very scared about it.Why? [A real question, I'd like to understand your reasons, I'm not currently sure how I feel]As a copyright holder I had a right to publish further or not. I wont anymore.Previously your only recourse before was to sue anyone who chose to copy your work. Such action would likely be expensive, time consuming, and not necessarily resulting in a win. Under the GBA you can ask Google to exclude your work from all uses, or assert a request not to digitize it in the first place. You can also claim for payments due to revenues arising from use (though I expect that will amount to pennies for all but the most popular works). However, the default for all works "not commercially available" is to include them rather than exclude them, and I'm not sure this is the right choice.
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