Lawyer predicts another round of negotiations for Google Settlement Agreement
By Paul Biba
Litigation Daily, a lawyer’s publication, interviewed Gary Redback, one of the lawyers for the Open Book Alliance about the second round of the settlement. According to him we are probably going to see another round of talks because the revised agreement doesn’t take into account the concerns of the Department of Justice. Here are a few snippets from Redback’s comments:
Most neutral commentators were disappointed. They had the opportunity to satisfy issues raised by the DOJ but satisfied very few of them. The biggest issues–how the class action mechanism works, that the settlement would give Google the right to future infringements, the antitrust concerns–haven’t been touched. … could they have structured it in a way that the government would have been pleased? The government wanted changes, but they decided to blow off their recommendations and go to the judge…There’s a clean way to do this that the DOJ almost invited in their critique. … They just tried to shoot for the moon. When they don’t get that, we’ll get version three. You have to remember that Google is continuing to scan. What’s the downside for them if this drags on?
(via Resource Shelf)
November 27th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Downside?
Well, the DoJ could order them to turn over all scans to the Library of Congress, purge their databases, and forbid them to do any more…