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Google Books Fosters Intellectual, Legal Crossroads

Nobody in their right mind opposes the intellectual soundness of digitizing the world’s books -– even titles gathering dust in the stacks of university libraries — and making them available online. Yet Google will encounter stiff resistance in a Manhattan

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Yet Google will encounter stiff resistance in a Manhattan federal court Thursday during a marathon hearing that could grant Google the keys to free the written word from a business and intellectual model as old as paper and ink.