Antitrust Concerns Linger in Google Books Deal
revised Google Books settlement agreement may quiet international opponents, but it still gives Google a monopoly on commercializing out-of-print books where the copyrights are unclaimed and fails to protect consumer privacy, opponents said on Monday.
"We're at a cross roads," Internet Archive Director Brewster Kahle said during a panel late Monday on the Future of Books at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "Is it going to be a subscription life...where one or two companies own the distribution and presentation (rights) to these books?"
In response, Google Books Engineering Director Dan Clancy said: "This is just one of a panoply of choices that people will have in the future."Morehttp://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10398995-245.html
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