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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Oct. 1, 2009

Reining in Digital Books Space

Duane Valz of Chadbourne & Parke addresses the ramifications of the Google settlement and the future of digital book distribution.

ANTITRUST

By Duane Valz

In law and policy circles, perhaps the only matter more contentious this year than national healthcare reform is the Google books settlement. The settlement is the latest flashpoint in the ongoing transformation of various copyright industries in the era of Web-based digital distribution.

Over the past decade the music industry and Hollywood have been disrupted by online distribution technologies and services, such as N...

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