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Quoted by Peter Hirtle athttp://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/11/gbs-a-legislative-solution.htmlThe opt-out method has worked well for web sites, and it would work well for books. Unfortunately, the plaintiffs in the Google case think otherwise.A colleague has pointed out to me that Ken Auletta has an interesting quote on this in his new book, Googled (which I haven't read yet). He reportedly says:"If [Google] had had a copyright lawyer among their founders, they never would have started the company. The basic business of a search engine is to copy everything. To make your copy, and then search it. The first thing that happens, arguably, is infringement of copyright law. I say 'arguably' because there's never been a case on it. From day one, Google went out and copied the whole Internet. Can you imagine a company starting in the film world and the first thing they did was make a copy of every film in existence? That company couldn't have gotten started. The Web is always about copying, but copyright law is about making copying illegal." (127)