Google strikes a deal and not everyone is happy about it.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Dramale. It is Friday which means it's time for our week in review marketplace tech bites.

On the show today a trio of legal stories dominating big tech coverage this week.

As Open AI and Microsoft stare down allegations of copyright infringement,

11 non-fiction authors, including some Pulitzer winners,

have joined a lawsuit against both companies.

Plus, Apple pauses sales of two of its latest Apple watch models

but patent problems might not actually be much of a problem for the company's

hall this holiday.

First though back in September, Google settled an antitrust lawsuit brought by 36 states and DC.

The case stemmed from the tech giants handling of payments in its app store, Google Play.

The terms of said settlement were kept secret ahead of a trial in a related antitrust case.

But this week we learned Google is paying $700 million as part of that September settlement.

Wired senior writer Pireche Dave explained what prompted the states to file suit in the first place?

The allegation is basically that Google forced developers to use its billing system

and as a result, consumers didn't really have a choice of how they would pay, weren't able to pay for some

apps that didn't want to use the billing system, and then overpaid for other apps because those

app developers didn't really have a choice in billing. But the thing to note here is that most consumers or

many consumers are probably only going to get $2 out of this settlement. So it's not

a ton, but if they bought a lot of games on the App Store at the the Google Play App Store, they might get a little bit more money.

Yeah, 700 million sounds like a lot until you distributed out.

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