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Federal Judge Rejects Google Books Deal

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:20AM from the edge-of-the-copyright-envelope dept.

14erCleaner writes "US Circuit Judge Denny Chin has rejected a $125 million settlement between Google Books and the author's guild that would have allowed Google to publish all out-of-work fiction online. Chin has previously ruled more favorably on this case."

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Re:lame by KillAllNazis · 2011-03-22 12:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There's a difference between illegal and wrong. If something can be copied indefinitely then it makes no sense for it to cost anything. There's a big picture of a post scarcity, post monetary world that's being missed here.