Just before the deadline set by Judge Denny China from the New York district court and the U.S. company Google's association of authors and publishers submitted a mitigated version of the controversial Google Book Settlement Agreement. The document contains, inter alia, criticized the amendment forced the French authorities and German. According to the Google directory it will occur only books protected by copyright, which were issued in the U.S., UK, Australia or Canada. In addition, Google's competitors to facilitate access to the scanned works. This proposal must now accept the judge China.
To conclude an agreement between Google and associations came as a result of a complaint the U.S. bookselling industry, which complained that the concern of Mountain View, copyright infringement. The agreement in its current form assumed that, after payment of the amount of 125 million U.S. dollars will receive the right to Google for scanning and inclusion in the Network of books owned universities and libraries. This provision, inter alia, sharply criticized European governments and the publisher. Also, the U.S. Department of Justice requested the correction of the agreement. Google and the publishing industry are hopeful that these changes rozwieją any objections and criticisms.