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...Fifty-three-year-old Gabrielle Short, a forgotten Australian, described her ordeal at the Nazareth House, an orphanage in the southeastern town of Ballarat, to the Australia Associated Press (AAP). "If you wet the bed at the house, they'd rub your face into the sheets until it bled," Short said. "I try to explain it to my children now. If you were to read the story Oliver Twist, you take away the music and the happy bits, and that's what it was like." Two sisters, who were also in the care of the Nazareth House, but in Brisbane...
...massive scale. The Google Books project has so far amassed 10 million books, in 400 languages (Latin, apparently, is one of the most common). But Google started all of this scanning without consulting rights holders first, and so in 2005, two U.S. bodies, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Authors Guild, launched a class action against Google for copyright infringement. (See the 50 best inventions...
...agreement, Google will be able to offer users the option to purchase full digital access to books that are still in copyright but are out of print - turning itself, in effect, into a huge bookstore. As part of the settlement, Google pledged to pay $125 million compensation to the AAP and the Authors Guild and, in the future, to pass on a 67% share of the proceeds every time it sells an out-of-print book online. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...anti-competitive. There has been a rush of last-minute filings, for and against the agreement, from rival companies, publishers, advocacy groups and even foreign governments, including Germany's (which opposes the agreement). Should Judge Denny Chin find against the settlement, the class action originally launched by the AAP and the Authors Guild would, in theory, continue. He could also decide against outright approval but still sketch out other possible solutions. (See a video on this year's summer reading...
...bloody history. When Tsotsi won its best foreign film Oscar in 2006, the cast and crew went to Mandela's house for a celebration. "After he congratulated us, he told us: 'We should be very careful of our South African stories,' " says Kenneth Nkosi, who played Tsotsi's friend Aap. "'Do not tell our stories in the wrong way. Remember that there is no one in the world who is not flawed.' He was saying: 'I am a man. I am not this perfect icon Hollywood makes me out to be. That's not the truth.' And a movie that...