Late Friday night, Google filed a revised version of its book settlement with the New York court that is overseeing the case. The new version limits the settlement to works published in a handful of English-speaking countries, and contains significant concessions that appear to be direct responses to some of the criticisms of the deal. Nevertheless, some of its harshest critics have clearly not been placated, as the revised deal has already come under fire due to continuing legal, privacy, and business issues. Perhaps the most significant change made to the deal is the limit to its scope. The EU as a whole (and several of its member countries) objected. to several aspects. of the settlement, which could have seen Google offer scans of European works that have never been licensed for sale in the US. Google offered to add European publishers and authors to the board that oversaw the handling of book content, but that was apparently not enough to satisfy the European publishing business;
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