Google Book Project Tries to Placate the Critics: Will It Be Enough?
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The DOJ also expressed concern about the inclusion of works by foreign authors, and noted aspects of the Original Settlement that had the aura of price-fixing. The DOJ worried that the result of the Original Settlement would be a Google monopoly over the works that it had digitized, since no competitor would likely replicate Google’s work in the face of uncertainty regarding the outcome of any copyright infringement lawsuit that it might face from authors whose works had been copied without permission. The DOJ seemed to favor a legislative solution to the problems associated with the creation of a massive book database, rather than to entrust it to Google alone.
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