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This comment will consider the latest, and currently most high profile copyright challenge to one of Google's business models, Google Book Search, and which illustrates great efforts to reach private agreement against a background of attempted, but stalled, public regulation. Chapter from "A Liber Amicorum: Thomas Wälde - Law Beyond Conventional Thought". Edited by J. Werner & A.H. Ali. ISBN: 978-1-907174-01-8, November 2009. The book is republished on OGEL and TDM with kind permission from CMP Publishing Ltd. . Available as free download <a ...