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Heidi J. Tworek and Christopher Buschow

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<a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/heiditworek/biocv">Heidi J. Tworek</a> is lecturer and assistant director of undergraduate studies in the History Department at Harvard. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 2012 on the history of German and global news. In addition to academic publications, she has written for The Atlantic
<a href="http://www.ijk.hmtm-hannover.de/en/institut/personen/christopher-buschow-ma/" />Christopher Buschow</a> is a research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Journalism and Communication Research at Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media in Germany. In 2012, he published a book in German on the negotiations leading to Germany’s ancillary copyright law

History Lessons: Why Germany's "Google tax" won't work

History Lessons: Why Germany’s “Google tax” won’t work

German publishers are hitting the headlines all over the world with their fight against Google. The Economist has described Germany’s attitude as “Googlephobia” and The New York Times recently compared…
October 23, 2014