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Rivals Band to Fight Google Books


Rivals Band to Fight Google Books
By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter 
BBC News 
Silicon Valley
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8200624.stm>



Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's 
attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library.

Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being 
spearheaded by the Internet Archive.

They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for 
many online works.

"Google is trying to monopolise the library system," the Internet 
Archive's founder Brewster Kahle told BBC News.

"If this deal goes ahead, they're making a real shot at being 'the' 
library and the only library."

Back in 2008, the search giant reached an agreement with publishers and 
authors to settle two lawsuits that charged the company with copyright 
infringement for the unauthorised scanning of books.

In that settlement, Google agreed to pay $125m (76m) to create a Book 
Rights Registry, where authors and publishers can register works and 
receive compensation. Authors and publishers would get 70% from the sale 
of these books with Google keeping the remaining 30%.

Google would also be given the right to digitise orphan works.



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