Brewster Kahle

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Internet Archive Founder Questions Google Books Settlement

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2009 at 12:10 pm PT

Will the settlement agreement between Google’s Book Search Library Project and authors and publishers put Google in monopoly territory? That’s the argument that Brewster Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive, made in an op-ed in the Washington Post, in which he writes that the settlement “provides a new and unsettling form of media consolidation.”