How to Fix the Google Book Search Settlement

Authors

James Grimmelmann, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2009

Keywords

publishing

Abstract

The proposed settlement in the Google Book Search case should be approved with strings attached. The project will be immensely good for society, and the proposed deal is a fair one for Google, for authors, and for publishers. The public interest demands, however, that the settlement be modified first. It creates two new entities—the Books Rights Registry Leviathan and the Google Book Search Behemoth—with dangerously concentrated power over the publishing industry. Left unchecked, they could trample on consumers in any number of ways. We the public have a right to demand that those entities be subject to healthy, pro-competitive oversight, and so we should.

Publication Citation

12 Journal of Internet Law 1 (2009).

Disciplines

Antitrust and Trade Regulation | Intellectual Property Law | Internet Law | Science and Technology Law

Digital Commons Citation

12 Journal of Internet Law 1 (2009).