By Middle East and North Africa Business Report, Amman, Jordan May 21--Reinforcing its commitment to protect Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Jordanian authorities recently conducted raids on computer stores in Amman trading in pirated software.

By PULLAR-STRECKER Tom A NATIONAL digital content strategy has been published by the Government after two years of deliberation.

By Bjrner, Susanne Google's December 2004 announcement to expand its plans to digitize the world's books into scanning collections from five major world libraries in the U.S. and U.K. brought a strong reaction from Europe, primarily from France.

By Ashling, Jim The many and varied institutions of Europe can present a confusing and seemingly unending array of unions, councils, commissions, committees, and parliaments.

After telling people how to behave on the Internet and introducing fines for those who don't flush toilets, Singapore now has noise police to keep volumes down in its public libraries.