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The interesting thing about this suit is that the complaint is not that the photographers are being deprived of revenues, buy viagra pills. Buy viagra, In fact Google blacks out the copyrighted photos in the digitized books.

The photographers are complaining that the very act of scanning the books creates an illegal copy of the photographs, even if it is never displayed to a Google Books user, viagra alternative. Kind of  logical, Wyoming WY Wyo., or would be in a looking glass world.

In its suit, p. 20, the photographers make quite modest demands:

Hmm. $150K per image, times how many images in how many books. You do the math.

James Grimmelmann has a quick analysis of the merits. Whither now the settlement.

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