Word: likings
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London's West End is one of the world's great shopping districts. Its two main arteries, Regent and Oxford streets, and its capillary-like maze of side streets, are crammed with some of the biggest and trendiest names in retailing. But shopping in the West End can be downright exhausting: sidewalks heaving with humanity; the constant din of noise; traffic fumes; foul weather...
...Israeli security zones and settlements makes nonsense of the territorial integrity of the West Bank, while a ring of Israeli-controlled space is forming around East Jerusalem, without control of which no Palestinian or Arab leader will be able to accept any peace agreement. Not surprisingly, then, Palestinian moderates like Abbas are on the wane, militants are on the rise, and the whispers already talk of a new uprising...
...French President isn't the only European David ready to stand up to the Internet Goliath and its formidable archiving project. Last October, German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated concerns held by many German publishers. The German government, she said, rejected "the scanning of books without any copyright protection like Google is doing. We refuse to permit simple scanning of books without full protection of intellectual-property rights." The French and German complaints are part of a growing move in the European Union to head off Google's mass digitization of literature. "It is not up to any individual organization...
...Opponents - these include several European governments and publishers, and the Open Access Alliance formed by authors and Google rivals like Yahoo! and Microsoft - describe that as a kind of massive, literary landgrab which ignores copyright concerns until owners demand they be paid or their books removed. They also fear Google's initially free search-and-access service will give way to a pay scheme. Confusing matters further, libraries, publishers and writers in both the U.S. and Europe are split in pro- and anti-Google Book camps...
...pending settlement reached with U.S. publishers' groups, Google has agreed to limit its archiving to works that have been registered in the U.S., or come from the U.K., Australia, and Canada - English-speaking countries whose authors are present in American libraries. That agreement would nominally exclude books from countries like France and Germany, and from China, which has also objected to the digitization project on copyright grounds. Still, the accord must be approved by a U.S. federal court review in February - not a slam-dunk affair, given the American Justice Department's concerns that the agreement still breaks "fundamental copyright...