E-book lawsuit: Apple attacks out of court settlement
Apple has the U.S. Department of Justice as part of the case made by anti-competitive price fixing of e-books distinct allegations. This happened last Wednesday in a memorandum submitted to the court. In this report, the Group, the out of court settlement with three major U.S. publishers would put negotiated contracts expire before a court would have dealt with the issue. Apple should get into the process at the end of law, the validity of the contracts could not be easily restored. Therefore, the actions of the Justice Department is fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and also without precedent.
In the debate is about the charge that Apple have met with five of the six largest publishing anti-competitive price fixing. This is to the prices of e-books have increased markedly in the United States after the introduction of Apple's iBooks online store. After the lawsuit was filed, three of the publishers had agreed to an out of court settlement, the key issue is getting out of the so-called agency model in the contracts with Apple. Just that Apple uses in the statement now and speak of an irreversible decision that prejudge the court.
The Communication does Apple also alleges that the influence of the market leader Amazon's on the actions of the Justice Department to be tremendous. A total of 14 employees of the online retailer with the U.S. government would have spoken, but not one of them under oath. In addition, Amazon has just need to pass some 4500 documents, which is only a fraction of the amount that was demanded of others.
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