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Microsoft, Yahoo and other challengers have submitted their final arguments to the courts today opposing the class-action settlement that would substantially expand Google’s library of digital books. As we previously reported, the lawsuit and settlement were brought about by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights and of other rightsholders of books and inserts by scanning their books, creating an electronic database and displaying short excerpts without the permission of the copyright holders. In late August, Google allotted access to over a million books with a variety of downloading formats. Critics have attacked the settlement with conspiring to create a monopoly—one that raises book prices and boosts the influential search engine’s continual popularity.