In 2005, the Authors Guild of America, together with a group of US publishers, launched a class action suit?(集團(tuán)訴訟) against Google that, after more than two years of negotiation, ended with an announcement last October that Google and the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement.
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
It ended in a victory for the Authors Guild of America
出自-2011年12月閱讀原文
The other reason why costs are so high is the restrictive guild-like ownership structure of the business.