Google On The Defense About Book Search

Jacksonville – The United States Department of Justice confirmed that it is going to be conducting preliminary talks with Author Guild (AAP) and several publishing houses in an effort to end a nearly four year copy write infringement lawsuit that was filled against the company back in 2005. The dispute all started when the company was facing alleged copy write allegations as it was building its Google Library Project. Since that time both sides have agreed to settlement talks in 2008, avoiding the prospect of long costly trial for both sides. Under the proposed settlement Google was released from any wrong doing and will fund different publishing programs. According to recent court papers, “This creates an innovative marketing program for authors and publishers of in-print books that catapults the publishing industry into the digital age, a result that greatly benefits individual authors and publishing houses, which simply could not launch such a program on their own.”

What this shows is that in spite the nasty legal fight that began a few years ago, both sides will walk away from this settlement as winners. Meaning that Google can continue with their Google Library Project and publishers can be able to put their material onto the internet quickly, helping to bring them into the internet age. While there has been no final settlement that has been reached, it is clear that both sides are eager to put this behind them and move forward.