Peter Menell Calls For Cooling Off Period for Google Book Deal

The Media Institute, IP Issues, September 16, 2009 by Peter Menell
http://www.mediainstitute.org/new_site/IPI/091609_GoogleBooksSettlement.php

Google’s efforts deserve commendation, but to allow Google effective monopoly control over the world’s most comprehensive knowledge repository would be out of proportion to those efforts.  Such control would pose undue threats to long-term competition, innovation, and preservation of and access to knowledge.