Twitter Grabs a Google Lawyer

Courtesy Mashable!  Sat, 07/11/2009 - 23:44

twitter logoTwitter has reportedly ramped up its legal team by hiring away a key Google lawyer to become its general counsel.

The site has nabbed Alexander Macgillivray, the former Senior Product and Intellectual Property Counsel at Google, reports the NYTimes .

Macgillivray’s resume is extensive: he steered the Google Books settlement with publishers, which if approved by a federal judge could pave the way for Google to scan and index millions of books.

He also handled Google’s conflict with...


 

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