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With Supreme Court Passing, Google Books Legal Battle Over, for Now

Associations Now

The high court on Monday announced that it had refused to hear a case regarding the Google Library project, which scans literature and makes it searchable. We filed the class-action lawsuit against Google in September 2005 because, as we stated then, ‘Google’s taking was a plain and brazen violation of copyright law.’

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Google Books Scores Big Legal Victory, Authors Guild Plans Appeal

Associations Now

20M The number of books currently in the Google Books collection, which the company first launched in 2004 with the help of a number of research facilities and public libraries such as Harvard, Oxford, and the New York Public Library. Google was first sued over the collection in 2005.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

Its mission, "to provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere," has received noteworthy grant funding, and the academy is rapidly amassing a video learning library for teachers and students on a variety of subjects, math and science still dominating. Nov 2005 (1). Oct 2005 (1). Sep 2005 (2). Aug 2005 (1).

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12 Simple Ways to Unleash More Creative Thinking

Idea Architects

For a quick field trip, just visit the periodicals section fo your local library or spend time looking at the covers of the magazines in an airport shop. to experiment with new projects and see what works out. Nov 2005 (1). Oct 2005 (1). Sep 2005 (2). Aug 2005 (1). Jul 2005 (2). Jun 2005 (1).

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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

My team published the first Standard Generalized Markup Language-tagged, fully searchable digital library on CDs in 1995. Working with the Chinese government, it took six years to open (1999-2005) and another eight years to build relationships and an office team to make the office effective in the local market.

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