Receive the weekly sampler of posts and "Resource of the Week".
Subscribe »

Enter your
email address:

My Account »


Bookmark and Share

Testimonial?
If you find ResourceShelf useful, please supply a testimonial »








Home > ResourceBlog > Article

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Bookmark and Share   Feed

Monday, 28th December 2009

Google Negotiations Going Well in China But One Writer Begins Her Own Law Suit

First, The Global Times (an English Language newspaper from The China Society) reports that the negotiations between Chinese Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS) and Google are "going well."

During the third round of talks on Friday, Google handed over a list of more than 80,000 Chinese books that were scanned for its Digital Library.

However, Zhang Hongbo, deputy director-general of CWWCS didn't think the number was accurate.

"It must be higher as books published before 1987 were not included and many of their copyrights have not expired," he told the Global Times.

Google is expected to obtain authorization from CWWCS to use books published in China after further talks.

Moving on.

The China Real-Time report (from the Wall Street Journal) says that one author, Mian Mian, will be in Beijing court on Tuesday suing Google.

Shanghai-based novelist Mian Mian, whose work has been translated for overseas readers and who is known for writing stories about China’s underworld and other risqué themes (one of her books is called “Panda Sex”, is suing Google for an apology and 61,000 yuan ($8,921) for publishing part of her novel, Acid Lover.

Sources, Global Times. China Real Time Report


Category:

Views: 709




blog comments powered by Disqus

« All ResourceBlog Articles

 

Read about the FreePint FamilyFreePint Family

A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »


FeedLatest Family Articles:


Click to view the article Quilting big data threads
Thursday, 24th May 2012

Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.


Click to view the article The fallacy of information overload
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?


Click to view the article Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure?
Wednesday, 23rd May 2012

Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.


Click to view the article Newsdesk: tracking millions of pieces of information a day
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?


Click to view the article Alacra Compliance adds managerial oversight
Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).


All Family Articles »
Family Articles by Category »


Tell us what you're working on,
and we'll talk to you about how FreePint can help »


FreePint Family Testimonials

"Fabulous resource to learn of unique tools and insights. Very useful." Manager, Futures and Forecasting, Virginia, USA

More testimonials »






Subscribe

Subscribe to the ResourceShelf Newsletter and receive the weekly sampler of posts and Resource of the Week.

Find out more »

ResourceShelf sponsored by:

Article Categories

All Article Categories »

Archive

All Archives »