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Michael Handler

Michael Handler is a research fellow at ACIPA, the Faculty of Law, the Australian National University in 2005, and will be a senior lecturer at the School of Law, the University of New South Wales in 2006.

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Google: Search or Destroy?

Google stands accused of copyright infringement by two major American authors’ associations and a French newswire. But the tools the company provides have done more to promote global access to information than any other. Here, librarians, lawyers, legislators and thinkers discuss the rights and wrongs of an internet giant.

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