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According to agency AFP, yesterday, an American writer Ursula Le Guin asked the court to review the agreement to establish an electronic library, signed by Google, the Writers Guild (an American writers" unions) and the Association of American Publishers. Ursula K. Le Guin and more 366 American writers require that the agreement did not apply to books published in the United States.

recall a project to create a digital library, in which users can view all or part of the scanned copies of books, was first presented at the book fair in Frankfurt in 2004. But in 2005, the Writers Guild and the Association of American Publishers sued Google, alleging that the project infringes the copyrights of authors and publishers. At the end of last year, both sides reached an agreement under which Google agreed to pay $ 125 million to create a nonprofit Book Rights Registry.

Copyright owners will be able to register in the organization of the book, then Google will be entitled to digitize these books and provide its users with their content on a fee basis. Rights holders should receive royalties from sales of books and advertising revenue Google. However, France, Germany and some other countries refused to participate in this agreement, resulting in its terms were revised. Effects of the revised agreement extends to books that are registered with the Registrar of the U.S. copyright on January 5, 2009 or issued in Australia, Britain, Canada or the United States. However, new conditions have not yet received court approval. Court for the Southern District of New York will consider the revised agreement on February 18.

Ursula K. Le Guin and her supporters say that at the conclusion of this agreement, Writers Guild did not speak and could not speak on behalf of all American writers, as its representatives will not discuss this issue or with any other group of writers, either with the U.S. writers in general. The petition, with the text of which can be found on his personal site by Ursula K. Le Guin, said that other writers" associations, such as the National Union of Writers, American Society of Journalists and Writers and the American writers of science fiction and fantasy, opposed U.S. participation in this agreement. Among the writers who have put their signatures on a petition, there are such popular authors as Wally Lamb, Amy Tan, Scott Thurow, Garrison Keyllor and Elmore Leonard. In turn, the family of the writer John Steinbeck, which was originally against this agreement, changed his mind and went to the camp of his supporters.

A Google spokesperson said: "If this agreement is approved by the court, it will open access to millions of books in the U.S., giving authors and publishers new ways to distribute their works." If you require a group of writers led by Ursula K. Le Guin will be satisfied and the United States will be excluded from the agreement, it will be a serious blow to the book project from Google.

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