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The US Justice Department has sent formal demands to Google Inc and publishers, for information about the Google Settlement, in a move that it has been suggested could further stall the deal. The Wall Street Journal reports that the civil investigative demands, or CIDs, are the strongest sign yet that the Justice Department may seek to block or force a renegotiation of the Settlement, which was struck last year between Google, US authors and US publishers.

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