Whispers and Warnings For September 7th
This Week:
- Challenges to library books up 20% in 2004. List of most controversial books is here.
- Associated Press – Navy SEALs drop claims against this agency.
- The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle – S.C. high court reinstates libel suit against this paper.
- New York Post – Gov. George Pataki said he believed it was illegal for the paper to publish transcripts of tape recordings of private conversations involving him, his wife and top aides and advisers.
- Bangkok Post – Nearly 100 journalists of Thailand’s oldest English-language newspaper demonstrated in support of editors who they say were fired under pressure from the Thai government.
- Coming soon: End user license agreements forbidding book buyers from reselling books?
- Israel Broadcasting Authority – Sued for alleged libel.
- Google Print – Association of American Publishers upset the search engine will scan thousands of books from the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library, for posting, albeit only brief sections, online.
- Google Print – Association of American Publishers upset the search engine will scan thousands of books from the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library, for posting, albeit only brief sections, online.