Library Stuff

Globes – “A lawsuit has been filed against Google Books with the Jerusalem District Court, with a request to recognize it as a class-action lawsuit. The petitioner, Yonatan Brauner, the author of “Things you see from there” (in Hebrew), claims that the project infringes authors’ copyright “on the greatest scale in human history”.

Brauner claims that Google continuously scans, collects, copies, and makes publicly available millions of books, thereby grossly and systematically infringing copyright without first obtaining the authors’ consent. He said it was not yet possible to estimate the damage caused to authors because he lacks precise figures about the quantity of creations affected or the extent of the copyright infringement for each work, but he provisionally estimates the damage at “tens of millions of shekels or more”. “

Ha’aretz – “It’s been over 100 years since the founding of the first Hebrew city, and now Tel Aviv has made some much-needed changes to its English-language Web site, a move many other cities have yet to undertake.”

Library Journal has a round-up.

I’m torn. I’m all for free speech, but (obviously) not hate speech. Plus, I try to be Pro-Israel. Sigh.

Shalom