Yesterday a US judge rejected Google's landmark legal settlement with book publishers, casting doubt on a deal that has been at the heart of the search company’s attempts to forge stronger relations with media companies.
The provisional $125m settlement would have given the green light for the company’s controversial efforts to digitise millions of books and allow it to open a huge online store with electronic versions of works that had long been unavailable
The plan had been attacked by Microsoft and Amazon, who claimed it would give Google an unfair advantage by letting it short-circuit key provisions of copyright law. The judge also took issue with many details of the plan, and foreign governments including France and Germany claimed it would contravene international copyright agreements.
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