Attorneys for all of the settling publishers (Harper, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House and Macmillan) jointly filed objections to the DOJ’s proposed injunction against Apple on Wednesday: “Under the guise of punishing Apple, they effectively punish the settling defendants by prohibiting agreements with Apple using an agency model.” (For the record, they filed together “solely for the convenience of the Court and in the interests of judicial economy.”) The fundamental arguments — and even some of the quotes cited — will be familiar to readers who remember our Monday post, About Last Week. The filing notes that Justice’s […]
