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...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 is legitimate, it's now Europe's turn to cry foul, with European publishers complaining the settlement is unfair...
...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...
...agreement may have appeased U.S. publishers, but their counterparts in Europe, along with some European governments, are up in arms over it. More than half the books scanned and digitized by Google are not of American origin, but European books aren't expressly covered by the settlement. This has raised the fear that Google could sell books that are out of print in the U.S. but not elsewhere to U.S. users without paying European rights holders a penny. "It is clearly discriminatory towards E.U. rights holders," Anne Bergman of the European Federation of Publishers wrote to TIME...
...While critics worry that the settlement would legalize a digital "land grab" of historic proportions, Google insists that it simply wants to "help readers get access to more books in more ways," a Google spokesman says. "Our goal remains bringing millions of the world's difficult-to-find, out-of-print books back to life." Read: "Librarians Fighting Google's Book Deal...
Start with the basics: The U.S.-Japan alliance did not come into being because the two countries decided they loved each other. It did so because one defeated the other in war; occupied it; then wrote and imposed a new constitutional settlement upon it. Japan may have "embraced defeat," to adapt the title of John Dower's book on the postwar period, but let nobody suppose that this had nothing to do with a naked assessment by Japanese leaders of their interests, rather than in a sudden passion for all things American...