Microsoft's Copyright Assault on Google

by Catherine Holahan

Hoping to convince publishers to back its own online book search service, the software titan comes out swinging against the search giant.

Microsoft threw a one-two public relations punch against Google, starting Mar. 5. The sparring got under way when Microsoft attorney Thomas Rubin publicly criticized Google's position on copyright—first in a newspaper editorial and then again the following day at a publishing industry conference.


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