2010 ABA Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California
5 August 2010- 10 August 2010
Hosted By: the American Bar Association
At the annual meeting of the American Bar Association, held in San Francisco on 5-10 August 2010, NERA Senior Vice President Dr. Gregory K. Leonard participated in a panel discussion on the proposed Google Books settlement. The settlement was proposed in response to the class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers who claimed that Google has violated their copyrights by scanning their books and creating an electronic database that displays short excerpts without the permission of the copyright holders. The Google Books settlement raises a number of antitrust and other issues, and could also have important implications for how class action settlements are negotiated in the future. This program examined potential price fixing among publishers, a possible Google monopoly over orphan works, and implications for copyright policy and privacy, as well as questions about the appropriate use of class actions.
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