The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, on behalf of a broad class of copyright holders, will join with Google to host a teleconference today to discuss a settlement agreement that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search.This concerns a class-action suit brought by the Authors Guild and a separate one filed by five large publishers as representatives of the AAP's membership. The Guild had sued Google in September 2005, after Google struck deals with major university libraries to scan and copy millions of books in their collections.

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