Friday, July 3, 2009

Google Books settlement under investigation

The Department of Justice is investigating the Google Books settlement for antitrust violations. This is good news.

Google reached a settlement with the association of publishers that would make it possible to make out of print books available electronically to everyone. That's good. However, it would grant Google the exclusive right to provide this service, and exclusive rights to the money from it. That's very bad.

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