Google Book Project Tries to Placate the Critics: Will It Be Enough?
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The Copyright Office was soon joined by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which announced that it had initiated an antitrust investigation. In a “Statement of Interest” that it filed in the court proceeding in September 2009, the DOJ pointed to a potential conflict of interest between authors who were members of the Authors Guild and authors whom neither party could identify or locate, even though their books were in the collection. Joining the fray was a group of 33 antitrust law professors who signed a brief arguing that the Original Settlement was pro-competitive because it would make available millions of books that currently have no commercial outlet. (The author of the brief received funding from Google.)
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