DOJ Shoots Holes Though Google Book Settlement

If any one business dealing represented the potential to reshape media, it’s the Google Books class action settlement. The agreement has received some heavy criticism, though, clearly, the publishers and the one professional writers’ group, the Authors Guild, involved in the negotiations seem to support it. (Usual caveat: I’m a book author who opted out of the settlement, which suggests that I see flaws, at least as to how it could affect me.) But now the Department of Justice filed a last minute memo in the case, and it gives a strong view of the problems the DOJ sees and the difficulty facing Google and its would-be publishing partners.

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