Google Inc. is planning to head to take the US Department of Justice to court in order to see if they can get access to the rights of millions of books without breaking copyright or antitrust laws.
Google filed suit on Thursday defending a settlement they made for $125m with US publishers and authors a little over a year ago. According to Google, the settlement allows them to publish books without breaking the law.
According to Google, every suggestion from the US Justice Department has been followed expect for one. Among the contentions within the filing is a rebuttal from the Justice Department that the settlement will undermine copyright law and reduce the competition in the book market.
Google’s corporate rivals, the Open Book Alliance, rejected the arguments made by Google stating that even though the attorneys for Google have spun the truth of the settlement, the company will still allow Google exclusive access to books that it has scanned without permission.
In response Google has revised its plan in the hopes of persuading the US District Judge Denny Chin that the opponents of the settlement are wrong. Lawyers from the popular online company stated that copyright law is meant to promotion distribution and creation of works and that the settlement will help forward this purpose as much as any other distribute method in the history of copyright.
The decision to take on the US Justice Department is a big risk for Google given that it will raise the interest of antitrust regulators in Google and its advertising system, which is responsible for most of the revenue the company earns.
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