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Les Echos No. 20459 06/07/2009 p. 20 EDITION ALEX MC GILLIVRAY, counsel at Google, responsible for negotiations with the American associations of authors and publishers: "implementing Google Book is at the heart of our mission," the antitrust division of the Department of Justice is interested in your agreement with the authors and publishers. Is this a bad news for Google The Department of Justice initiated a dialogue with us to review all the clauses in the agreement concluded last October. The implementation of the Google Book Search catalog and the service paying Google Edition eBook is a very important for Google initiative, because it aims to open public access to books that are difficult to find. It is at the heart of our mission is to make the more accessible to the greatest number possible information. It is a very ambitious mission and, in this context, it is perfectly legitimate that the Government ensure that our action so not the lines laid down by law, in particular as regards compliance with the rules of the competition. Your opponents you accuse of wanting to monopolize the market of orphan works. That their answer you Our ambition is to provide a response to the lack of access to these works. The problem is not that rights holders do not exist, but that it is extremely difficult to find them. We hope that the financial argument related to the pay distribution of these works on the Internet can encourage rights holders to know, since they will be free to determine the price of their work on which they will receive 63. On the other hand, Google will invest $ 34.5 million in a directory of copyright. It will be an independent-non profit organization controlled by the authors and publishers, and which will, inter alia, aim to find the holders of the orphan works. This is the first time that a private company is investing in this type of project. In parallel, we support the ongoing legislative efforts to improve public access to these works. Contrary to what has been written, all our agreements are non-exclusive, either in the trial with the authors and publishers or individual partnerships with 25,000 libraries and publishers from around the world. From our point of view, the e-book market has players of size, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. We will be a further and in any case there is monopoly. In addition, we believe that the model we are building will encourage other actors to launch similar services. In accordance with the procedure of a trial of "class action", we expect the month of October that the judge leads the final hearing on the fairness of the settlement agreement contract with publishers and authors. This hearing will allow members of the civil party who are opposed to some terms of the agreement, but have chosen to remain up to the end in the process, to hear their grievances to the judge. Once endorsed by the judge, this agreement give flexibility holders around the world, since they will have the opportunity to withdraw their work of our service, or even to leave in the catalogue but to prohibit the sale. How do you convince the Government that Google does not threaten the competitive game on the American market of the e-book Our ambition is to provide a response to the lack of access to these works. The problem is not that rights holders do not exist, but that it is extremely difficult to find them. We hope that the financial argument related to the pay distribution of these works on the Internet can encourage rights holders to know, since they will be free to determine the price of their work on which they will receive 63. On the other hand, Google will invest $ 34.5 million in a directory of copyright. It will be an independent-non profit organization controlled by the authors and publishers, and which will, inter alia, aim to find the holders of the orphan works. This is the first time that a private company is investing in this type of project. In parallel, we support the ongoing legislative efforts to improve public access to these works. Contrary to what has been written, all our agreements are non-exclusive, either in the trial with the authors and publishers or individual partnerships with 25,000 libraries and publishers from around the world. From our point of view, the e-book market has players of size, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. We will be a further and in any case there is monopoly. In addition, we believe that the model we are building will encourage other actors to launch similar services.In accordance with the procedure of a trial of "class action", we expect the month of October that the judge leads the final hearing on the fairness of the settlement agreement contract with publishers and authors. This hearing will allow members of the civil party who are opposed to some terms of the agreement, but have chosen to remain up to the end in the process, to hear their grievances to the judge. Once endorsed by the judge, this agreement give flexibility holders around the world, since they will have the opportunity to withdraw their work of our service, or even to leave in the catalogue but to prohibit the sale. What is the next step Our ambition is to provide a response to the lack of access to these works. The problem is not that rights holders do not exist, but that it is extremely difficult to find them. We hope that the financial argument related to the pay distribution of these works on the Internet can encourage rights holders to know, since they will be free to determine the price of their work on which they will receive 63. On the other hand, Google will invest $ 34.5 million in a directory of copyright. It will be an independent-non profit organization controlled by the authors and publishers, and which will, inter alia, aim to find the holders of the orphan works. This is the first time that a private company is investing in this type of project. In parallel, we support the ongoing legislative efforts to improve public access to these works.Contrary to what has been written, all our agreements are non-exclusive, either in the trial with the authors and publishers or individual partnerships with 25,000 libraries and publishers from around the world. From our point of view, the e-book market has players of size, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. We will be a further and in any case there is monopoly. In addition, we believe that the model we are building will encourage other actors to launch similar services. In accordance with the procedure of a trial of "class action", we expect the month of October that the judge leads the final hearing on the fairness of the settlement agreement contract with publishers and authors. This hearing will allow members of the civil party who are opposed to some terms of the agreement, but have chosen to remain up to the end in the process, to hear their grievances to the judge. Once endorsed by the judge, this agreement give flexibility holders around the world, since they will have the opportunity to withdraw their work of our service, or even to leave in the catalogue but to prohibit the sale. INTERVIEW BY LAETITIA MAILHES (IN SAN FRANCISCO)