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Yahoo and Microsoft have officially joined the opposition team that is opposing Google from having the controversial deal with US publishers and authors on having millions of books scanned and uploaded online. Media reports from the United States state that Microsoft and Yahoo as well have submitted their report and joined the opposing companies that have officially lodged with the US court to investigate on the legal possibilities of allowing the deal to take place.
Google would be paying the book authors and publishers a sum of $125 million for giving the rights for US internet users to have partial access to the books that are out of print and not available in the market but still have copyright unless rights holders opt out. The revenue that would be generated from selling full access will be shared between Google and the right holders of the books.
The issue has raised some concerns in Europe as well as although the deal only covers US copyright it would also be involving books published elsewhere as well. This will now affect the international copyright law but give the US company the control to access the online way of European learning.
European stakeholders have already had a discussion at Brussels about the deal and Europe’s strategy for converting the region’s libraries in to online information. Following this meeting organized by the European stakeholders, France and Germany have already lodged their objections against the US deal. This conversion of the books into the digital format has given birth to a great problem and has also attracted the attention of the US government and the House Judiciary Committee has called for a hearing regarding the issue on 10th September 2009 according to the media. Now Microsoft and Yahoo have also joined this team of companies who are against Google and the US book search deal that it has built.
Microsoft’s lawyers in the report that they have lodged against Google have accused Google for seeking monopoly on digital books. They have specified as follows, “Monopolisation is the wrong means to carry out the worthy goal of digitising and increasing the accessibility of books,” In the report that has been submitted by Yahoo, their lawyers have said that the settlement was “not an appropriate legislative vehicle”. They have also added saying that “covers an unascertainable, and conflicted, group of plaintiffs” and “raises competition concerns”, while also creating “barriers to entry for future competitors to Google in presenting books online”. However, Google is confident that it would be able to gather its supporters and the company along with the supporters would be able to benefit the society and make millions of books available for anyone who has access to the web.