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Google Book Search to get final hearing

-18/02/2010
A federal judge will start looking into the Google Book Saga today (18/02/2010) in a bid to end this dispute that started in 2005.

The dispute momentarilly appeared to be resolved in October 2008, when google announced plans to end a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers.
The two parties came to an agreement that would allow google to continue to scan books for its onbline library, in exchange for restrictions on what it could do.
Under the terms of this deal, Google would also pay the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers $125m (£79.5m) for the right to scan in copyright books and sell them online.

However, this agreement was met with a string of objections from the following groups:

Authors
Wanted their consent before their books are published by Google.

Competitors (e.g Amazon)
Were concerned about the unique rights that the term would grant Google.

Privacy advocates
Had privacy concerns about corporate organisations tracking the type of books that people read.

The US Justice Department
has twice expressed "antitrust" concerns over the proposed settlement.

Representatives from Google, groups representing authors and publishers, privacy advocates, and competitors will appear before Judge Denny Chin in New York to argue their case.

If Google get their way, this would mean that Google can display books online with different degrees of access, sell books and provide a subscription service for its online library.

Source
Guardian
 
 

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