Here is an interesting article that was published yesterday on Wired: Google Takes On Copyright Laws.
"If Google is seen as being permitted to do this without any response, then probably others will do it," said Allan Adler, a vice president at the Association of American Publishers. "You would have a proliferation of databases of complete copies of these copyrighted works."
It'll be interesting to see the follout.

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