The United States Justice Department has opened an antitrust investigation into the proposed settlement agreement between Google and the representative publishers and authors which forms the basis of the proposed settlement of the class action suit The Author’s Guild v. Google. This week the Justice Department advised the Court of the commencement of the investigation citing public expressions of concern as the basis. In connection with the opening of the investigation, the parties to the suit have been served with investigative demands for information by the Department of Justice.  Judge Denny Chin, who oversees the case, set a deadline of September 18th for the Department to submit its written objections and also granted the Department the right to set forth its objections at the fairness hearing scheduled for October 7th.  Â
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03Jul
Posted by Anthony @ 10:55 am
