HeatherR - 9:01 pm on Jan 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Then it might have ended differently. I believe Mr. Field, by admitting that he was fully aware of the tags, and his steps of filling copyrights, revealed his intentions.

It does not seem to matter much what his 'intentions' were. In my mind, this is very cut and dried:

Google has a copy of someone else's work without their expressed permission.

That is copyright violation. Period.

Opt out is not expressed permission. Opt-in, however, is, and I believe Google should make inclusion 'opt-in'.