Legal Research

Boy, Ya Gotta Jump Through a Lotta Hoops To Become a Monopoly

The proposed Google-Authors Guild settlement is back in the news again. The DoJ, which has decided it really doesn’t care for Google’s attitude, thank you very much, has notified everyone that they have decided to look into various and sundry antitrust issues related to the settlement.

At the same time, Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Federal District Court in New York has given authors and other interested parties 4 more months to opt out of the settlement and/or file briefs about it. This means that the approval process for the deal will drag into at least October, one year after the settlement was announced.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).