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Google set to enter digital book war this year with Google Editions as US cases surrounding its Google Books Library Project gather pace

12 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Google plans to launch Google Editions this year. Google Editions is a digital bookstore. Unlike its rivals, this will not restrict the purchaser to use the books on a particular piece of equipment. This...

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US web site scraping case proceeds to trial

10 May 2010 | Mark Weston

A US court has ruled that a database builder who had been authorised by a client to scrape the client’s web site on a database built for it by a previous supplier may have been infringing copyright,...

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Football fixture company wins court victory to stop fixture lists being used without licence – Football Dataco v Brittens, High Court

4 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick

FDL put together the schedule of football fixtures for English and Scottish premier and football leagues. Brittens commercially exploited the fixture lists, allegedly without a licence from FDL. This trial...

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Google suffers stinging attack on its privacy practices from leading privacy regulators in Buzz storm

23 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Google has received a stinging attack from leading privacy regulators. The online giant came under fire after it had launched a new service called Buzz that took what had previously been private data from...

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Ordnance Survey offers most of its map data for free

13 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Ordnance Survey has made available most of its mapping data for free. The service, called OS OpenData, went live on 1 April. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the world wide web, has strongly welcomed the...

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And the Oscar for best picture goes to…

4 March 2010 | Bob Fahy

On 7 March, we will find out if James Cameron will become “King of the World” again and whether his film Avatar will emulate the same success as Titanic, 12 years ago. Yet again James Cameron is at...

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Latest news and views tagged databases

Google set to enter digital book war this year with Google Editions as US cases surrounding its Google Books Library Project gather pace

US web site scraping case proceeds to trial

Football fixture company wins court victory to stop fixture lists being used without licence – Football Dataco v Brittens, High Court

Google suffers stinging attack on its privacy practices from leading privacy regulators in Buzz storm

Ordnance Survey offers most of its map data for free

And the Oscar for best picture goes to…

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