{"id":3253,"date":"2009-09-23T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2009-09-23T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T17:29:59","slug":"new-google-book-deal-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/23\/new-google-book-deal-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google book-deal settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Justice Department\u00a0says the original deal likely violates antitrust law,\u00a0a $125 million settlement of a lawsuit that would give Google the right to digitize millions of out-of-print books will be <a title=\"renegotiated\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/22\/AR2009092202460.html\" target=\"_blank\">renegotiated<\/a>.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an antitrust-law expert, says\u00a0opponents\u00a0may have a weak antitrust case against Google and\u00a0a new settlement is a smart solution.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The parties to the settlement probably realized that they are better off changing the terms of the settlement than spending years in court defending the original deal.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because the Justice Department\u00a0says the original deal likely violates antitrust law,\u00a0a $125 million settlement of a lawsuit that would give Google the right to digitize millions of out-of-print books will be renegotiated.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Keith Hylton, an antitrust-law expert, says\u00a0opponents\u00a0may have a weak antitrust case against Google and\u00a0a new settlement is a smart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}