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Trying to Save the Web's Shortcuts

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 25, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

The Internet Archive and more than 20 Web companies are banding together to preserve the historical records of the abbreviated Internet addresses that are passed around on services such as Twitter. Services such as Bit.ly and TinyURL allow consumers to convert a lengthy Web address into a miniaturized one. They have soared in popularity in recent years with the advent of Twitter, which limits users to 140 characters per post.

Google’s Mission: To Digitize the World’s Books and Make Them Universally Monetizable by Google

John Paczkowski in News on November 16, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT

Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have submitted a new version of their digital book settlement, and while it makes concessions to the Department of Justice and others who have raised concerns about how it may violate antitrust laws, the new proposal doesn’t seem to have appeased all of its opponents.

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Antitrust Lawyer Slams Google Book Pact

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 8, 2009 at 3:23 pm PT

Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer Gary Reback made his case against the Google Books settlement Tuesday, arguing that the settlement is illegal but could be remedied if the Justice Department insists that Google license the books it scanned to competitors.

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Internet Archive Founder Questions Google Books Settlement

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2009 at 12:10 pm PT

Will the settlement agreement between Google’s Book Search Library Project and authors and publishers put Google in monopoly territory? That’s the argument that Brewster Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive, made in an op-ed in the Washington Post, in which he writes that the settlement “provides a new and unsettling form of media consolidation.”