Friday 1 December 2006

Google Donating to Stanford CIS

According to an article in the San Jose Business Journal, Google has pledged to donate $2 million to the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School.

The quotes in the article imply that this money will be used for issues related to intellectual property and copyright in particular. Given that Google seems to be having quite a few issues regarding copyright and trademarks at the moment, (e.g. the Google News copyright decision in Belgium, reports that that Google has put aside a large pot of money to cover copyright issues arising from its acquisition of YouTube, issues arising from its indexing of print publications, being sued in France over a video download/copyright infringement, etc.) this seems very appropriate.

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