The US Justice Department has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow internet company Google to publish millions of books online. The deal raised copyright and anti-trust issues, the department said, and should be rejected in its current form. The court is due to rule on the issue early next month. Under the deal - the product of a legal suit - Google would establish a $125m fund to compensate those whose works it published online.
It would establish a Book Rights Regis (source: news.bbc.co.uk)
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