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Sat 04 Apr 2009D-Day approaches for Google's assault on writers' copyright

CULTURE SHOCK:Google’s latest move strikes at the heart of the ability of artists to make decisions about the use of their work, writes FINTAN O'TOOLE

PICTURE THIS. You read “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”, and up pops an ad for a dating agency.