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Google admits to scanning books

Google officials yesterday admitted to having scanned more than 20,000 books under Chinese copyright protection. The world's largest Internet search engine has been in negotiations with China's copyright watchdog for scanning works for its online... ...full story at People's Daily

from People's Daily on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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