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Ever since it started out as a humble search engine 11 years ago, Google's goal has been to organize the world's knowledge. In 2004, it took a big step in that direction with Google Books, a project that aims to digitize as many books as possible and make them available to the web-using public. The project proved controversial from the start, with U.S. publishers accusing the Internet giant of copyright infringement. Google eventually came to an agreement with them over the issue. But as a New York court tries to decide whether or not the agreement...
...five years now, Google has been scanning books on a 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...
...compromise." At the E.U. hearings in Brussels, the representatives of publishing groups and governments from Italy, Spain and France have been expressing similar fears. According to the International Herald Tribune, a spokesman for the French Ministry of Culture repeated France's long-held stance that Google's book project was a risk to cultural diversity, speculating that Google might withhold access to what is essentially "cultural data" best stored locally or nationally...
...Europe's rage is tinged with a touch of shame, as the Google Books saga highlights just how far behind European nations lag in their own digitization efforts. When Google started the project five years ago, several countries - France in particular - raised the alarm and proposed grand plans to scan Europe's literary bounty. Still, "only some 1% of the books in Europe's national libraries have been digitized so far," Viviane Reding, E.U. Commissioner for Information Society and Media, noted in a joint statement, warning that "if we are too slow to go digital, Europe's culture could suffer...
...bets on the release date of his inevitable comeback album. Surely the Bob Dylan of hip-hop wouldn’t be able to stay away from the studio for long before whipping up another street-lauded aural epic of ghetto American dreams. Six years later, the former Marcy Projects hustler has confirmed these suspicions with three post-retirement studio releases and a smattering of collaborations and compilations, but on “The Blueprint 3,” his eleventh LP, Jay-Z aligns quantity with quality, reaffirming his status as one of hip-hop’s greats.Instead...