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...Last year, they came to a settlement, which is now awaiting approval from a New York district court. Presently, Google Books gives readers full access to books that are out of copyright - therefore, in the public domain - but shows only extracts of books that are still in copyright, alongside information on bookstores and libraries where you can find them. Should the court approve the 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...
...York district court has scheduled a fairness hearing for Oct. 7, in an attempt to decide, among other things, whether or not the Google Books agreement is 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...
Narinder Kumar wants to buy an electric steam iron. The 24-year-old dhobi, or washerman, earns his living ironing clothes with a coal-fired iron as his ancestors did, in the same shack in south Delhi's Lajpat Nagar district as his father and grandfather before him. It's hard to imagine a workplace with a smaller carbon footprint than Kumar's: At 6 by 4 ft., it consists of only four iron poles holding up a roof made of plywood and corrugated iron. There's one electric fan for the summer days when the heat from the bulky...
...Israel-Palestine relations and the subsequent backlash from the American Jewish community, which voted overwhelmingly for the then-Illinois senator. Taking a more critical stance, Joel B. Pollak ’99, who graduated from the Law School in 2009 and is running for Congress in the 9th district of Illinois, called upon the Jewish community to “hold the Obama administration and Congress accountable” for recent Middle East policy including a much-publicized speech in Cairo, a delayed show of support for protestors after the presidential elections in Iran, and sustained pressure on Israel...
...vulnerable Democrats that they are actually considering skipping President Obama's much-touted speech on health-care reform before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9, for fear of being caught on camera applauding any health-care initiatives. "There are a lot of freaked-out moderate and swing-district Democrats who are now gun-shy, regardless of what is in the bill," says Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, which tracks congressional races. "The question might be how much a bill would have to be shrunk to get a majority of 218 votes, and if they...