The US Justice Department has urged a New York court to reject a deal that would allow internet company Google to publish millions of books online.The deal raised copyright and anti-trust issues, the department said, and should be rejected in its current form.
The court is due to rule on the issue early next month.
Under the deal - the product of a legal suit - Google would establish a $125m (£77m) fund to compensate those whose works it published online.
It would establish a Book Rights Registry so that authors whose work it digitised were paid when their material was viewed online.
In a statement, Google, the Authors Guild and the AAP said that they were "considering the points raised by the department and look forward to addressing them as the court proceedings continue".
Google says the deal would give readers unprecedented access to books that have been out of print for years.
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