Merkel attacks Google (cross posted)

The Google settlement issue has taken on full political dimension with the attack on Google by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in her podcast for the Frankfurt Book Fair.
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/23654
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/11/angela-merkel-google-digital-library
Angela Merkel attacks Google's plans to create a global online library

German chancellor expresses fears for copyright in run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair
Jamie Doward 
The Observer, Sunday 11 October 2009 
German chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday waded into the row over Google's plans to build a massive digital library. In her weekly video podcast, before the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Merkel appealed for more international co-operation on copyright protection and said her government opposed Google's drive to create online libraries full of scanned books. 

"The German government has a clear position: copyrights have to be protected in the internet," Merkel said, adding that there were "considerable dangers" for copyright protection in the internet.[more]


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