According to Wall Street Journal, the Internet Archive will be challenging Google's proposed settlement with book publishers and authors, whereby it intends making copyright works from a number of libraries - including the New York Public Library and the libraries at Stanford and Harvard universities - available to online searchers.

Peter Brantley, the Internet Archive director and co-founder, informed the paper that three tech biggies - Microsoft, Yahoo, and Amazon - some library associations have been enlisted by the Internet Archive to form a coalition, which will be co-led by the well-known antitrust lawyer Gary Reback.

Though Brantley said that the formal disclosure of the members forming the coalition will come in the next couple of weeks, he hinted about the inclusion of the Special Libraries Association, the New York Library Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

About the proposed coalition, Brantley said it would "develop public statements and documents" that identify the antitrust implications of the Google settlement with publishers, along with considering other issues, like whether the agreement would protect the privacy of the users.

Meanwhile, Google has defended its contentious settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, struck in October, saying: "The Google Books settlement is injecting more competition into the digital books space, so it's understandable why our competitors might fight hard to prevent more competition."