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A Microsoft Corp. attorney will attack Google Inc.'s book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers (AAP), saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business.

A group of some of the world's leading IT and telecommunications companies have warned that Europe could become a "haven for plagiarism" if the European Parliament fails to agree to allow patent protection for inventions implemented by computer.

The fiery debate over how to protect content online moved from the well-charred subject of music to digital television this week, thanks to a proposal by a computer and consumer-electronics group to create a high-definition TV "standard" that would keep pirated content from ending up on the Internet.

The recording industry would have us believe that CD burners and MP3s are the spawn of Satan.