(Information Today.com): A year ago, Google and its two major litigants, The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, announced they had settled their differences and filed a settlement agreement with the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York. Since then, a flurry of amicus curiae briefs have been filed with the court from parties representing a wide range of interests-most of them negative or at least cautionary-and a Department of Justice (DOJ) Statement of Interest filed Sept. 18, 2009, focused on competition, class action, and copyright worries. So, last week, when Google and its someday-soon ex-litigants filed a revised settlement agreement with the court, the coverage proved equally feverish. However, closer examination of the revised settlement seems to reveal that the changes from the original settlement are not as major as some coverage has indicated.
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