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Amazon came out swinging Tuesday against the proposed Google settlement with authors and book publishers.

The opposition of the Amazon was launched last week, when he came into the open book of the Alliance, but the company has filed its own brief with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Tuesday to oppose the adoption of the proposed final settlement. In its filing (click for PDF), Amazon notes that it also scanned the book, but took a controversial step that Google took when crawling out of print, but copyrighted books without permission.

Back in 2004 when Google began scanning books from the library, she believes he has the right to scan the entire text of copyrighted books on the rules of fair use so long as it is displayed only a piece of content. The team of authors and publishers of strong opposition, resulting in a claim and the proposed settlement of the dispute in this case.

Amazon's lawyers wrote "Amazon also brings a unique perspective to this court because it deals with book scanning project is very similar to Google, with one major difference: With regard to books, subject to copyright protection, Amazon has scanned only those for which it may obtain authorization from the copyright owner.

Short continued to complain that the settlement is unfair to authors, publishers and others whose work will be subject to a compulsory license for the life of copyright in favor of Google and the newly created Registry Book Rights ". Amazon Congress wants to intervene in a dispute about the fair use provisions of the laws of copyright, claiming that the use of class action settlement to get it right "is an unprecedented rewriting of copyright law through judicial action."

Amazon, of course, has much at stake when it comes to future books. One of the biggest sellers of regular books in the world, Amazon also turned its attention to the market for digital books with the release of Kindle and digital book store itself.

Google has its supporters in the struggle to get a settlement, approved in the early October fairness hearing, Judge Denny Chin. Sony, the American Association of People with Disabilities, the European Commission and several others filed a summary of support in court. And on Tuesday, Coolerbooks British publisher agreed to join the Google affiliate program, which allows it to Google's scanned copies of public domain works are not at issue in the settlement.

Update 2:52 pm PDT: Google plans to hold a press conference tomorrow morning with the settlement of the supporters of human rights defenders and advocates for people with disabilities, which we consider.

And three groups of the library on Wednesday confirmed that, although they are not against the settlement they wish to provide "vigorous oversight" provided by the court.

But, judging from the court registry, the opposition is out of the filing of supporters. Those interested in the flooding, Judge Chin with additional material, reading, until Friday to do so.