Atlantic: Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria.
This particular moonshot fell about a hundred-million books short of the moon. What happened was complicated but how it started was simple: Google did that thing where you ask for forgiveness rather than permission, and forgiveness was not forthcoming. Upon hearing that Google was taking millions of books out of libraries, scanning them, and returning them as if nothing had happened, authors and publishers filed suit against the company, alleging, as the authors put it simply in their initial complaint, “massive copyright infringement.”
Been having a few backchannel discussions about 'remix' possibilities, in re: copyrighted works. I've posted this as a reference for myself.