This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law. It`s not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the rightful owners of these copyrights, to decide whether and how their works will be copied.
- Nick TaylorThe people who hold the copyrights said there`s no issue here.
- David LaneNow that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.
- Lawrence LessigCopyrights have not expired, and will not expire, so long as Congress is free to be bought to extend them again.
- Lawrence Lessig