<story><title>How Google Book Search Got Lost</title><url>https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>This is the value-destruction side of copyright protection.  With more reasonable length and more easily determinable copyright status, efforts like google books would be able to do so many more things.  But without a permissive legal framework that innovation is shut down.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Google Book Search Got Lost</title><url>https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>WalterBright</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;quot;They should have just licensed the books instead.”&lt;p&gt;The problem with orphaned works is that can&amp;#x27;t be done, as nobody knows who owns them.</text></comment>