Today, 28 January 2010, the Open Book Alliance filed a Supplemental Amicus Curiae in opposition to the proposed settlement between the Authors Guild, Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc. and Google, Inc. The first Amicus Curiae was filed on 4 September 2009.
The Open Book Alliance believes that the proposed settlement threatens to bottleneck the access to and distribution and pricing of the largest, private digital database of books in the world. It would do so by using the class action mechanism to not only redress past harm, but to prospectively shape the future of digital book distribution, display and search.
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