The Google Book Case Settlement is Dead
The proposed settlement of the class-action lawsuit against Google Book Search is officially dead tonight. Just days after the antitrust division of the Department of Justice (DoJ) intervened in the case to urge U.S. Judge Denny Chin to reject the settlement, Google and the plaintiffs (the Author’s Guild and the American Association of Publishers, et.al.) filed a motion for the hearing scheduled for October 7th to be adjourned. As reported last week, the parties are already in discussions about revisions to the settlement that would address some of the concerns raised by a broad coalition of librarians, academics, authors and activists, (as well as Google competitors Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo), plus the governments of Germany and France. These include worries…
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