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Bloggers take German library to task

By Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt

Published: November 25 2008 02:40 | Last updated: November 25 2008 02:40

For someone writing under the name Robert Basic, it seemed too good to be true.

“My parents are never going to believe I’m going to be catalogued by the German national library,” the blogger wrote about the library’s plans to collect things German on the web to add to its century-old collection of the nation’s books.

Library liberties: reports that Germany's Nationalbibliothek might fine bloggers for noncompliance

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