For those of you interested in copyright issues ... and google http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f377278-a869-11de-9242-00144feabdc0.html French publishers will try to persuade a Paris court on Thursday that Google’s ambitious project to digitise millions of books held in US libraries breaches France’s copyright laws. <snip> French publishers point out that French law offers more protection to copyright holders because it does not include the “fair use” exception to copyright breaches contained in US law. Google has often cited the “fair use” principle to defend its scanning project.