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SAN FRANCISCO (Télam). The U.S. internet company Google defined, after a lawsuit, an agreement for 125 million dollars with the association of writers and publishers of the United States. This should enable network availability over digitized books, as announced by the parties involved.

The agreement determines that $ 45 million will be used to pay authors and publishers of books already scanned. In turn, created the Book Rights Registry, which will resolve existing claims and cover legal costs, according to the German agency DPA reported.

The association of authors and publishers also agreed to work with Google to expand the firm BookSearch project to facilitate access to print books, create new ways to purchase copyrighted books electronically. Likewise, it aims to expand institutional subscriptions to colleges and provide free electronic access to books from certain computers in public and university libraries in the United States.

The lawsuit was filed in 2005 against Google's Book Search program, which digitizes entire books and can read and search for works already published. "This historic agreement is a victory for everyone," said Richard Sarnoff, president of the association of publishers.

"Writing a book is hard work, and even harder is to be paid to you," said Roy Blount, president of the association of writers. Google founder Sergey Brin said the deal will boost the "mission" for Google to organize the world's information. "Today, with authors, publishers and libraries, we were able to take a big step in this effort," he added.

"While this agreement is a victory for all of us, the real winners are the readers. The tremendous wealth of knowledge that is the world's books will now be on the tips of his fingers," Brin said in this regard.

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