Antitrust and Innovation: Framing Baselines in the Google Book Search Settlement

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Randal Picker, Oct 29, 2009

In this brief note, I address three points. First, I do a quick status update on competition issues in the case. Second, I turn to a key issue that has emerged in the commentary on the competition issues; namely, what is the right way to frame the competition policy baseline for assessing whether a new arrangement such as GBS is pro-competitive? That question is of general interest to the intersection o