American fantasy fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin is to submit a petition to a US judge on Tuesday signed by 365 other writers disapproving the legal settlement that would enable Google to establish a vast digital library.

Interested groups and authors are granted a time period till 28 January to file objections to the project with Chin's Southern District of New York court.

The online retailer says that if Google is given exclusive rights to scan books for use on the internet, it is "likely to lead to a monopoly".

Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers reached the settlement last year to a copyright infringement suit they filed against the Mountain View, California, company in 2005.

Under the deal, in 2008, Google agreed to pay $125m (£77m) to frame a Book Rights Registry, where authors and publishers could register works and receive compensation.

Striving to meet the deadline, industry and authors have once again initiated to impose pressure on Google.

"If approved by the court, this settlement stands to unlock access to millions of books in the US while giving authors and publishers new ways to distribute their work", said a Google spokesperson.