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Reports say the DOJ sent civil investigative demands — the civil equivalent of a subpoena to two publishers involved in the asking for details. Last year Googlwe (NASDAQ: GOOG) worked out the settlement, hoping to get on with its ambitiouse project to digitize millions of books and make them publiclyu available in whole orin part, depending on their The project, and the irritated some publishers and though publishers can opt out (like ’zs in October). The $125 million settlement goes into a fund to pay authors and publisherws for use oftheirf works.
Critics of the deal say Google will be making moneyu off of books it puts into its and want the deal squelched onantitrust grounds. The quandart shows — like (NASDAQ: AAPL) and music companies foune in their digital rights managementstrugglee — that copyright and creative royalty laws have lagged behinr both technological progress and changeas in people’s attitudes. Many youngv people in their 20s today grew up freelg downloading andsharing music, movies, television shows and other creative products.
Businesses like and cateredr to their hungerfor music, and people would upload entire seasons of popular TV shows when the were releaser on DVD, letting other people with enough patience and a good Internet connection download them for free. Apple struggledx with so-called DRM software, but didn’f succeed in completely sorting outthe Google, in Mountain View, makes most of its moneyu from online search and advertising, but it has many lofty ambitions for projects for the public good, including this book scanniny deal. Though the deal has been criticized by Google has mademany out-of-print books available through its efforts.
Many of them woulx still be moldering away in libraries or storeroomw somewhere ifthey hadn’t been scanned and put online for anyon to read. Although Google has professedr manyaltruistic intentions, neverthelesz it is a for-profit business, and some like , have also , a nonprofitt digital book archive. Libraries, one university spokesman thinkin centuries, while private businesses come and go. Googlw has also put from Madrid’ s online and opened up archivesx of Lifemagazine .