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I placed this comment on Lessig's Blog (here with some hyperlinks):
The lawsuit is asking to shut down the “Google Print Library Project”, not “Google Print”.
A large part of “Google Print” is the “Google Print Publisher Program”. There Google does ask for permission first. That shows that it can be done for many books.
That leaves the orphans. I recall that your proposal for dealing with them was to introduce a $1 registration fee, contrary to American obligations under the Berne Convention.
That proposal would seem to be unnecessary if anyone is free to violate orphans anyway, as you advocate in this post.
As to Google itself being illegal, well, of course they are. What’s wrong with that? It’s about time their free pass on copyright violations expired.