It sounds like the article is giving Google a hard time:<p><i>Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive at the Open Content Alliance, said Google may be trying to "lock up the public domain" by making proprietary copies of works whose copyrights have expired — which includes the vast majority of the world's books</i><p>They have a "license" to do anything they want with the books (that's what public domain is), and they chose to develop scanning and OCR technology to make money off of that. Why is that wrong? If another company wants that database, they should get some scanners and start scanning.