Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Google is gearing for what could be a watershed legal battle with the global book publishing community and has issued to subpoenas to major publishers, as well as rivals Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft, requesting information about their book scanning projects.
The search leader has made it clear that it
wants to index all of the works in print, including copyrighted works.
Under Google's plans, web users would be able to view snippets of the
contents of copyrighted works, in a similar way that Amazon enables
visitors to browse portions of selected titles.
However, Amazon and others have obtained permission from publishers and
authors before allowing access to selected sections of books and most
of the books on the site do not have such access.
Yahoo and Microsoft support a project called the Open Content Alliance,
a project which will users to browse contents of copyrighted works for
which permission has been granted by authors and publishers, while
major publishers have also launched their own online browsing projects.
The Google project, however, is the most far reaching and intends, with
the aid of major US libraries, to encompass all published works,
including those still in copyright.
Google intends to find out through its subpoenas exactly what criteria
the rival scanning projects intend to use judge what constitutes fair
use, as well as financial details of how book sales would be affected
and digital rights management features.
For Google, whose stated aim is to organize the world's information,
being able to index the contents of the world's libraries is its most
ambitious project to date and a test to what extent it can push the
boundaries separating freedom of information and copyright controls on
published works.
David Bass
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