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Google ebooks settlement is rejected

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The Google ebooks settlement was rejected Tuesday by Judge Denny Chin in U.S. District Court in New York. In November 2009, Chin had granted the settlement preliminary approval.

In a 48-page decision, Chin found the amended settlement agreement between the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs and Google, the defendant, to be overly broad.

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September 2009: Postponement for the Google ebooks settlement November 2008: Harvard steps back and other Google settlement news October 2008: The Google-publishers-authors settlement: What will it mean?

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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