Oct 4 (Reuters) - Google Inc :
* Publishers and Google reach agreement
* As the settlement is between the parties to the litigation, the court is not
required to approve its terms
* Agreement settles copyright infringement lawsuit filed against co on October
19, 2005 by five AAP member Publishers
* Says further terms of the agreement are confidential
* Settlement does not affect co's current litigation with authors guild or
address underlying questions in suit
* Says under the agreement, books scanned by Google in the library project can
now be included by Publishers
* U.S. Publishers can choose to make available or remove their books,journals
digitized by Google for its library project
* Publisher plaintiffs are McGraw Hill-Cos,Pearson Education,Penguin Group
(USA),John Wiley & Sons and Simon & Schuster
* Settlement will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books & journals
digitized by co for Google library project
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