There are several reports (see New York Times and Wall Street Journal) that Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon will join a coalition aimed at challenging the Google book settlement.
Peter Brantley, director of the Internet Archive, which is putting the coalition together, tells the Wall Street Journal that coalition members want the agreement revised, but aren’t necessarily pushing to have it blocked.
The settlement stems from a lawsuit that claimed Google’s practice of scanning books and making them available online violated the copyrights of authors and publishers. Google settled the lawsuit last October, and a federal judge has already given tentative approval of the settlement. But, in response to growing opposition from authors’ groups and others in the publishing industry, final approval of the settlement was delayed until a Fairness Hearing scheduled for October 7th. continue reading. . .
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