Pull quote from James Grimmelmann: “But if the suit does reach the orphan issues, it may have an enormous effect. A ruling for the libraries could give them a broad privilege to start making older out-of-print books available digitally when it seems unlikely that a copyright owner can be found. A ruling for the authors, on the other hand, could significantly limit the scanning of books, pamphlets, letters, and other works, even for archival and preservation purposes.”
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