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Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! to Join Anti-Googlebook War
All our reading material is not yours
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco
Posted in Music and Media, 21st August 2009 19:17 GMT
The Register
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/21/
google_book_fight_heats_up/>


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The battle to derail Google's Book Rights Registry has been joined by 
three heavyweight warriors: Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo!.

The New York Times has reported that the three tech giants are planning to 
join efforts to block the court settlement of a 2005 
copyright-infringement class-action suit that would give Google the right 
to digitize, host, and sell ads against millions of published works.


<snip>


One of the stickier parts of the multi-tenacled settlement, however, is 
that it gives Google the right to scan and host so-called "orphan books" - 
that is, books whose copyright holders can't be found.

Depending upon whom you ask, the settlement is either a breakthrough in 
knowledge distribution or a monopolistic grab of the intellectual wealth 
of nations.



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Google Rivals Will Oppose Book Settlement
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: August 20, 2009 
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/technology/internet/21google.html>


Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition of nonprofit 
groups, individuals and library associations to oppose a proposed 
class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital 
copies of millions of books.


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Gary L. Reback, an antitrust lawyer in Silicon Valley, who is acting as 
counsel to the coalition, said that Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo had all 
agreed to join the group, which is tentatively called the Open Book 
Alliance. The group, led by Mr. Reback and the Internet Archive, a 
nonprofit group that has been critical of the settlement, plans to make a 
case to the Justice Department that the arrangement is anticompetitive.



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This deal has enormous, far-reaching anticompetitive consequences that 
people are just beginning to wake up to, said Mr. Reback, a lawyer with 
Carr & Ferrell, a firm in Palo Alto, Calif. In the 1990s, Mr. Reback 
helped persuade the Justice Department to file its landmark antitrust case 
against Microsoft.

Some library associations and groups representing authors are also 
planning to join the coalition, he said.




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