New filings logged on the Court’s web site in the Google Books Settlement case include objections from the state of Connecticut, Microsoft, and AT&T. The Connecticut attorney general asserts that, even with modifications designed to appease the many states that objected to the previous settlement agreement, it “continues to unlawfully misappropriate unclaimed funds for the maintenance of the Book Rights Registry.” Microsoft, repeating many earlier arguments, also adds that the curtailing of some of the settlements’ new revenue models “does not help. Not only do these permitted future uses remain sweepingly broad, they would constitute new types of infringement that […]
