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FILE - In this March 21, 2008 file photo, a scanner passes over a book at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., where one of hundreds of librarians from all over the world was helping Google Inc.'s Book Search create digital versions of all the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world. Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until the end of Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 to come up with a new settlement over the ambitious book-scanning project. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Deadline arrives in Google book-scan deal

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Posted: Nov. 9, 2009

NEW YORK — The latest chapter is about to unfold in a four-year-old copyright lawsuit over Google's ambitious book-scanning project.

Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company have until the end of Monday to come up with a new settlement. They have to address the Justice Department's antitrust objections to a previous agreement.

The case involves Google's plans to scan millions of books and make them searchable and available for purchase online. A proposed $125 million settlement would give Google digital rights to those works. But the government told a federal judge in New York that the agreement threatens to give Google the power to increase book prices and discourage competition.

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