Google removes racist image of Michelle Obama

November 14th, 2009 NEW YORK/HAMBURG - Google has reached a new, more limited agreement with the US publishers over the Internet search giant's project to make millions of digitalised books available online. The new Google Books settlement, following months of negotiations, restricts the venture to books with copyrights registered in the US, Canada, Britain and Australia.

November 13th, 2009 Google, book publishers to reveal new settlementNEW YORK — The future of Google's plans to scan and sell millions of books online could begin to take shape Friday. Google Inc. and book publishers are expected to show a federal judge in New York a new settlement in the copyright lawsuit over Google's book-scanning project.

November 10th, 2009 more images more images Ex-Post editor: Cartoon controversy caused firing NEW YORK — A former editor for the New York Post has sued the newspaper, saying she was fired for labeling as racist a cartoon that critics said likened President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee. Sandra Guzman sought unspecified damages in the discrimination lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S.

November 9th, 2009 Deadline arrives in Google book-scan dealNEW YORK — The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project. Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until the end of Monday to come up with a new settlement.

November 9th, 2009 Deadline in Google book deal extended to FridayNEW YORK — Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. The new timetable approved Monday by a federal judge is the latest twist in a 4-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project.

November 3rd, 2009 BEIJING - Google has admitted to having scanned more than 20,000 books under Chinese copyright protection, a media report said Tuesday. The world's largest internet search engine has been in negotiations with China's copyright watchdog for scanning works for its online library without permission, the China Daily reported.

October 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A US rule banning foreigners with HIV or AIDS from entering the US will be lifted by early January, President Barack Obama announced Friday. The elimination of the 22-year-old rule is meant to put an end to the stigma of being infected with the disease, Obama said.

October 27th, 2009 Chinese paper accuses Google of hampering searchesBEIJING — Google Inc. faces a new controversy in China after a Web site run by the Communist Party's main newspaper accused the U.S.

October 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australia Tuesday stressed that there was no place for racism or racist violence and cited the recent sentencing of an Australian youth who had attacked an Indian student as proof of Canberra's zero-tolerance for incidents of this nature. "There is no place in the Australian society for racism or racist violence and the perpetrators of any such acts will face the full force of the law," Australia's High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese said here in a statement.

October 26th, 2009 On2 to settle suits challenging purchase by GoogleCLIFTON PARK, N.Y. — Video-software company On2 Technologies Inc.

October 21st, 2009 LONDON - Anti-racist campaigners prepared to stage a demonstration outside the television studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Thursday over its controversial plans to host the leader of an anti-immigration party on a popular current affairs show. Trade unions, Nazi holocaust survivors, politicians, anti-apartheid veterans and students were set to join campaigners against racism and fascism at the BBC's West London television studios to protest the inclusion of British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin on the panel of Question Time.

October 9th, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian judge has ordered Google to pay 5,000 reais ($2,847) to a woman for not removing offensive comments about her posted on the Orkut website. Judge Marco Aurelio Froes ruled in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday that the US-based company was liable because it did not remove the postings on the social networking site.

October 7th, 2009 Google book debate back to the drawing boardNEW YORK — Lawyers on both sides are poised to continue their court battle over Google Inc.'s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. A hearing is set for Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.

September 24th, 2009 Fairness hearing for Google books deal postponedNEW YORK — A New York judge has postponed a fairness hearing on a $125 million deal giving Google the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books so the agreement can be renegotiated. Judge Denny Chin said in a two-page order Thursday that plaintiffs and Google Inc.

September 24th, 2009 French publishers face Google in court over booksPARIS — Google has gone on trial in Paris over the insistence by French writers and publishers that the company request permission before putting book excerpts online. Google France lawyer Benjamin du Chaffaut is defending Google's publication of excerpts of copyright-protected material.