On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
US internet Giant Google was fined by a French count for copyright infringement. Google was fined for digitizing books without prior approval from publishers. The court ruled that Google violated French copyright laws and was asked to pay $14,300 a day until it removes excerpts of French books from it's online database.
Google was also ordered to pay $430,000 in damages and interest to French Publisher La Martiniere which brought the case on behalf of a group of French publishers. Google's attorney said the they would appeal.
Books that are in Google's database with the consent of publishers will still be searchable in their database even in France.
Google was also ordered to pay $430,000 in damages and interest to French Publisher La Martiniere which brought the case on behalf of a group of French publishers. Google's attorney said the they would appeal.
Books that are in Google's database with the consent of publishers will still be searchable in their database even in France.
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