In a legal analysis done for the Open Book Alliance, intellectual property lawyer Cynthia Arato, a partner at the law firm of Macht, Shapiro, Arato and Isseries, reiterated her belief that that the Google Book Search settlement in its current form 'violates the treaty obligations of the US,' and, if approved, 'would give rise to legal action against the US before an international tribunal and will certainly expose the US to diplomatic stress.'
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