Microsoft lobs ink pellets at Google

Vole's top lawyer Thomas Rubin is tonight to tell the Association of American Publishers, that Google's successful move into new media has been achieved at the expense of publishers of books, videos and software.

Rubin will be preaching to the converted here. Google has been sued by five major book publishers and organised by the Association of American Publishers.

According to a leaked copy of the speech, Rubin will say that companies that create no content of their own, and make money solely on the backs of other people's content, were raking in billions through advertising revenue and IPOs.

We guess there are some similarities between them and lawyers then. However Rubin accused Google of believing that everything may be freely copied unless the copyright owner notifies Google and tells it to stop.

The glorious Vole on the other hand takes the position of seeking the copyright owner's consent before they copy, he claimed.

The attorney also says Google's defence of 'fair use' is too wide and gives the search engine the right to steal whole books.

By casting Google as the Cavaliers Rubin knows which side lost the English Civil war. However it was a short victory. The leader of the Roundheads Oliver Cromwell was later tried for treason and hanged, even though he had been dead for some time. Still that is Cavaliers for you.

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