Open Book Alliance Chief Sounds off Against Google

This Thursday, February 18, is the day Judge Denny Chin will hold his final hearing on the Google settlement. Yesterday, Gary Reback, antitrust lawyer and leader of the Open Book Alliance, the coalition formed to oppose the Google settlement, penned an editorial for TechCrunch in which he says “If Google can stretch its advantage even further and deny its search rivals the ability to integrate the same corpus of books, Google’s lead in search will become insurmountable.”

Here’s more from the editorial:

The proposed settlement does just that, leaving Google’s search competitors out in the cold.

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