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corporations from bribing foreign govern- an additional 14 years, dating from 1980. students and faculty at 47 German uni-
ment officials. Gale’s full-page ad appeared in the April versities access to the Cochrane Library.
Google Sued for
Source: HP (www.hp.com) 12 issue of Newsweek to celebrate Na- Thanks to significant funding from the Copyright Infringement
tional Library Week. German Research Foundation (DFG) and
Source: Gale (www.gale.com) the German Central Medical Library (ZB Google faces another challenge in the
Bowker U.S. Book MED), members of the German National form of a class action lawsuit. This suit,
Production Plateaus German Universities Get Academic Opt-In Consortium will have
access to the Cochrane Library’s materi-
filed in New York federal court, alleges
that various photographers and graphic
In 2009, sales of new titles and editions
from Bowker dropped by about 0.5% in the
Cochrane Library Access als. The Cochrane Library is a collection
of evidence-based healthcare databases,
artists are having their work published
without permission or compensation in the
U.S. In 2008, the company sold 289,729 A deal between Universitätsbibliothek including Cochrane Systematic Reviews. Google Books settlement. The plaintiffs
copies, compare