google books deal battle heats up 谷歌加速数字化图书馆建设步-凯发k8官网

google books deal battle heats up 谷歌加速数字化图书馆建设步
文章来源:未知 文章作者:meng 发布时间:2009-09-05 02:44 字体: [ ] 
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the battle over google's effort to digitise the world's books and create a vast online library has 1.

谷歌试图将世界上的图书数字化并建立一座巨大的在线图书馆的意图加强。

one of google
one of google's aims is to "bring the world's lost literature back to life"

authors have until friday to 2 out of(决定不参加,决定退出) the $125m settlement the search giant made with authors and publishers.

the date for comments to the new york court overseeing the class action suit was extended from friday to tuesday, after the filing system went down.

as time ticks away, supporters and critics have been manning both sides of the debate to win the public case.

'civil right'

the settlement reached last october stemmed from a 2005 legal suit that google faced for scanning out-of-print works without 3(明确的,详述的) permission(同意,许可) from rights 4.

if approved by a judge, google would create a book rights registry where authors and publishers could register works and be 5.

ahead of friday's opt-out for authors, google lined up a number of professors, students and civil rights 6 who support the deal.

"we see access to knowledge as a civil right," 7 henderson, president and chief executive of the leadership conference on civil rights, told reporters in a conference call.

"information enables individuals to learn, to create and to pursue their dreams. access to knowledge defines the meaning of equal opportunity in a democratic society," said mr henderson.

access was also the issue that led the united states student association to throw its weight behind the google books programme.

"today, millions of books are accessible only to the privileged(有特权的) few who are accepted to universities and can actually afford to attend," said association president gregory cendana.

"with google books, any student anywhere in the us will have the books in the greatest libraries of the world at their fingertips."



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1 4b3b31dab91d010ec3f02bff8b189d1a     
v.(使)增强, (使)加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
  • the drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 a4szv     
vi.选择,决定做某事
参考例句:
  • they opt for more holiday instead of more pay.他们选择了延长假期而不是增加工资。
  • will individual schools be given the right to opt out of the local school authority?各个学校可能有权选择退出地方教育局吗?
3 ihfzc     
adj.详述的,明确的;坦率的;显然的
参考例句:
  • she was quite explicit about why she left.她对自己离去的原因直言不讳。
  • he avoids the explicit answer to us.他避免给我们明确的回答。
4 79c0e3bbb1170e3018817c5f45ebf33f     
支持物( holder的名词复数 ); 持有者; (支票等)持有人; 支托(或握持)…之物
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  • slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
  • it is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识,才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事,同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。
5 0b0382816fac7dbf94df37906582be8f     
补偿,报酬( compensate的过去式和过去分词 ); 给(某人)赔偿(或赔款)
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  • the marvelous acting compensated for the play's weak script. 本剧的精彩表演弥补了剧本的不足。
  • i compensated his loss with money. 我赔偿他经济损失。
6 90fd83cc3f53a40df93866d9c91bcca4     
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
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  • his research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 nmgzu     
v.跋涉,涉水;n.跋涉
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  • we had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
  • we cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。
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