U.S. Inquiry Is Confirmed into Google Books Deal - July 6, 2009 By Miguel Helft SiliconValley.com July 3, 2009 ""In a letter [on Thursday, July 2, 2009,] The Justice Department confirmed that it was conducting an antitrust investigation into the settlement of a lawsuit that groups representing authors and publishers filed against Google. "[The letter advised] the federal judge charged with reviewing the settlement [that] the Justice Department ... was reviewing concerns that the agreement could violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. [ ... ] "[Critics complain] that the agreement would grant Google the exclusive right to profit from millions of so-called 'orphan works,' books that are out of print and whose authors or rights holders are unknown or cannot be found." To read the full article, click on the Title Line, above. See Also: Critics: Google Book Deal a Monopoly, Privacy Debacle By Ryan Singel "Epicenter" Blog Wired News June 2, 2009 The Race to Create a Digital Library: Google Books vs. the Open Content Alliance By Klara Maidenberg Scroll Journal ("Essays on the Design of Elecronic Text" by Graduate Students at the iSchool, University of Toronto) Vol. 1, No. 1 (2008) Google Book Search, Orphan Works and the Public Domain Digital Natives blog June 25, 2009 The Field Narrows for e-Books As Microsoft backs away from digitizing old texts, some worry that a single company could privatize world knowledge. By Gregory M. Lamb Christian Science Monitor July 11, 2008