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$400 Million Settlement: E-book Price-Fixing May Cost Apple Big Time

On July 18, 2014 By

 

The number of Apple’s settlement with 33 states over electronic book price fixing could reach as high as $400 million. Last month, the company agreed to settle the class action brought by 33 attorneys generals seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for allegedly colluding with book publishers to inflate […]

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Reed Elsevier Decision May Clear the Way for Google Books

On April 6, 2010 By

In Reed Elsevier Inc. v. Muchnick, No. 08-103, the Supreme Court reversed a Second Circuit holding that federal district courts do not have subject matter jurisdiction to settle a class action copyright infringement action where some absent class members have not registered their copyrights. The case may clear the way for broader use of the […]

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