Microsoft attacks Google on books
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Microsoft launches a scathing attack on Google, saying that its rival's book-scanning service "violates copyright".
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Microsoft associate general counsel Thomas Rubin told the Association of American Publishers that copyright holders shouldn't trust Google to protect their intellectual property.
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A Microsoft Corp. attorney will attack Google Inc.'s book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.
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Internet search leader Google Inc. is trying to convince federal and state authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system is stifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights wrestle for the allegiance of personal computer users.
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Pot and kettle debate cleanliness Microsoft executive Tom Rubin will use a speech to the American Association of Publishers, which is suing Google, to slag off the search engine's attitude to copyright.â¦
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Google Inc fired back on Sunday  at Microsoft Corp's $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo Inc,  accusing Microsoft of seeking to extend its computer software  monopoly deeper into the Internet realm.
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Company's major upgrade of Google Apps poses serious competition to Microsoft Office.
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Microsoft will offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on the Internet.
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Microsoft launched an unusually caustic public broadside yesterday against Google, accusing its archrival of running roughshod over copyrights as it creates an online service for searching books.
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(InfoWorld) - A Microsoft attorney will attack Google's book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model. Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate general counsel, will address the AAP's annual meeting in New York, stating that while Microsoft's Live Search Books honors copyright protection and fair use, Google's Book Search abuses it. "In my view, Google has chosen the wrong path for the longer term, because it systematically violates copyright and deprives authors and publishers of an important avenue for monetizing their works," Rubin said in a copy of the speech posted on the Web site of The Wall Street Journal. Rubin also addressed the issue in a commentary written for Monday's edition of The Financial Times. "Google defends its actions primarily by arguing that its unauthorized copying and future monetization of your books are protected as fair use," the speech says. At issue is Microsoft's contention that Google has taken the position that it may scan, catalog, and display content published in book form under fair use principles unless the copyright right holders tells them not to. Rubin also says in his speech that Google then profits from material to which it does not own the copyright by running advertising along with it. He says that Microsoft seeks and receives permission from all publishers of copyrighted material before including it among titles that can be searched. A search for Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea" on Google Book Search brought up noÂ ads on the results page, but inserted one ad below four pages of scanned text. In contrast, Microsoft's Live Search Books, currently being beta-tested, brought up only one title in its search results, a book called "Search and Struggle for Quality and Independence," which cites Hemingway's tale as a reference. No advertising appears on the results page or the book's page. Rubin calls Google's attitude towards copyright protection "weak at best" and cites accusations leveled atÂ Google-owned YouTubeÂ over failure to remove copyrighted material as proof of that. "Anyone who visits YouTube, whichÂ Google purchased last year, will immediately recognize that it follows a similar cavalier approach to copyright," said Rubin. Google did not respond immediately to a request for comment. The U.S. Copyright Office defines "fair use" on its Web site as: "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported." Â
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Microsoft is set to launch a trial version of its long-awaited Internet search engine, as it reacts to the growing threat of Google.
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Google said Friday that it plans to subpoena its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in order to obtain information that will help the company defend its book scanning project from a legal attack. Google was sued by both the Association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild.
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Google charges the software giant is aiming to apply the same allegedly anti-competitive strategies to the Net that it has used to dominate the PC.
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Microsoft Corp.  is set to  launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc.  on  Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web search  leader's "cavalier" approach to copyright protection.
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google Inc. is trying to convince federal and state authorities that Microsoft Corp.'s Vista operating system is stifling competition as the high-tech heavyweights wrestle for the allegiance of personal computer users.