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Google Looks To Convert Print Pubs Into E-Articles

Posted by timothy on from the one-at-a-time dept.

bizwriter writes "A patent application by Google (GOOG), filed in August 2008 and made public last week, shows that the company is trying to automate the process of splitting printed magazines and newspapers into individual articles that it could then deliver separately. Although this could allow Google to convert stacks of periodicals into electronic archives, it potentially sends the company headlong into conflict with a famous Supreme Court ruling on media law."

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  1. Google has quite a history by taustin · · Score: -1, Troll

    it potentially sends the company headlong into conflict with a famous Supreme Court ruling on media law.

    They've already proved with the blatently illegal settlement on the book scanning deal that the law doesn't apply to them.