Coalition of Google rivals to oppose settlement

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Coalition of Google rivals to oppose settlement

Aug 21 2009

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo are planning to join a coalition of nonprofit groups, individuals and library associations to oppose a proposed class-action settlement giving Google the rights to commercialize digital copies of millions of books.

"This deal has enormous, far-reaching anticompetitive consequences that people are just beginning to wake up to," said Mr. Reback, a lawyer with Carr & Ferrell, a firm in Palo Alto, Calif. In the 1990s, Mr. Reback helped persuade the Justice Department to file its landmark antitrust case against Microsoft.

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