Revised Google Settlement Offers Minor Changes on Antitrust Issue, No Response on Library Pricing

From Library Journal on November 14, 2009:

Shortly before midnight last night, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers released a revised version (PDF) of the Google Book Search Settlement, with some clear concessions to foreign rightsholders (as noted by Publishers Weekly), a vague—and, to critics, fatally inadequate—concession on orphan works. There was also no response to library concerns about pricing of the potentially monopolistic institutional database—an issue that Google representatives say can’t be addressed in the settlement.

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Revised Google Settlement Offers Minor Changes on Antitrust Issue, No Response on Library Pricing – 11/14/2009 – Library Journal.