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Google and orphaned books

Nov 18, 2009 11:45AM PST

Does anyone know if Google plans to keep their published 'orphaned' books as public domain? I thought early on I heard that they planned on keeping copyrights of the books and not letting anyone else publish them.

Anyone know for sure?

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