Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project.
Google, the world's most-used search engine, is seeking information on rival projects by the companies, including book lists, costs, estimated sales, dealings with publishers and possible benefit or harm to copyright owners, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in New York.
Publishers and authors have sued Google, claiming the Mountain View, California-based company doesn't have the right to make copies of books without permission. Google says it is complying with copyright law because the search engine shows only ``snippets'' of protected books to the public. Google said it would keep subpoenaed information confidential.
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