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By Timothy B. Lee

Ars Techinca.com
Dec. 23, 2011
It’s as if the last four years hadn’t happened. In 2007, Google’s legal dispute with a coalition of authors and publishers over Google Books was put on hold while the parties hashed out a settlement agreement. That agreement was announced in 2008, but it attracted a massive backlash that convinced Judge Denny Chin to reject the settlement earlier this year.

So after three years of working together to try to get their settlement approved, the parties are now back in courts and at each others’ throats.

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