Google e-library: Justice Department Plays The Role Of A Dampener

Google’s plans of coming up with a registry wherein it will pay the authors whose books it scans and searches for online has received another jolt with the U.S government ruling against it. The entire plan of creating an online digital book library has suffered a huge setback because of this judgement.

According to the Manhattan Court that is considering the whether the agreement abides by the laws or not and the Justice Department, the proposal should be rejected in its present form and the negotiations with different parties should be continued in order to adhere with the antitrust and the copyright laws.

According to the settlement Google will pay  $125 million into a registry which will in turn pay the authors whose books are being used and reused.

Google has already received a lot of criticism saying that it is trying to look for a crooked advantage in putting its plan into action and now to top it all the government judgement comes in as a huge blow to its super zealous plans.

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