Nov 9, 2009 11:19 am US/Eastern
Deadline Arrives In Google Book-Scan Deal
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project.
Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until the end of Monday to come up with a new settlement. They have to address the Justice Department's antitrust objections to a previous agreement.
The case involves Google's plans to scan millions of books and make them searchable and available for purchase online.
A proposed $125 million settlement would give Google digital rights to those works. But the government told a federal judge in New York that the agreement threatens to give Google the power to increase book prices and discourage competition.
Google was founded in Menlo Park, California on September 4, 1998.
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