Google delays book scanning. 1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F): a. Google wants to put millions of books

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1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

a.	Google wants to put millions of books on the Internet.	T / F
b.	Publishers are cooperating to expedite Google’s project.	T / F
c.	Google Print involves scanning all of the books sold by Amazon.com.	T / F
d.	All of the scanning will be finished in November.	T / F
e.	Publishers accused Google of turning copyright laws upside down.	T / F
f.	Experts say copyright laws are too out of date.	T / F
g.	Information technology is moving at a similar pace to new legislation.	T / F
h.	Google wants millions of people to discover new books.	T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

a.	heady	burden
b.	hitch	beset
c.	up in arms	turning upside down
d.	afflicted	exciting
e.	suspended	furious
f.	upending	protect
g.	breakneck	stumbling block
h.	onus	vital
i.	safeguard	rapid
j.	crucial	shelved

3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

a.	encountered a	afflicted the music industry
b.	Publishers are up	that are centuries old
c.	flagrant	intellectual copyright
d.	pirating has	violations of copyright
e.	reproduce small amounts of	on writers
f.	placing the onus	major hitch
g.	outmoded copyright laws	able to discover new books
h.	breakneck	copyrighted material
i.	safeguard	in arms
j.	millions of users who’ll be	speed

GAP FILL: Put the words in the column on the right into the correct space.

BNE: Google’s _______ aim of scanning millions of books, to be freely searchable on the Internet, has encountered a major _______. Publishers are up in arms over what they see as _______ violations of copyright. They fear the duplication of copyrighted books will seriously damage publishing, _______ to how illegal downloading and pirating has _______ the music industry. Google Print involves scanning books from the university libraries of Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford. Google said it is using the books _______ under the “fair use” copyright law, which allows people to _______ small amounts of copyrighted material for personal use. Google has suspended scanning the books until November and has asked publishers to say which copyrighted _______ cannot be used.		reproduce flagrant heady legitimately akin hitch material afflicted
Publishers are _______ at what they perceive as Google’s attempt at upending copyright law by placing the _______ on writers to seek out instances of _______. Industry analysts put the disagreement down to _______ copyright laws that are centuries old. Legal procedures to _______ with the breakneck speed of developments in electronic information cannot be _______ in time to safeguard intellectual copyright. A Google press release stated: “We’re going to continue talking about Google Print with our partners and the publishing industry. These discussions have been _______ in helping to build a program that _______ the industry and, most important, the millions of users who’ll be able to discover new books.”		enacted infringement benefits outmoded irked cope crucial onus

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