Time Warner’s DC Comics is one of the latest groups to lodge a formal court protest to a pact reached by Google over a book-scanning project.

“Access to millions of works will be consolidated into one company,” DC Comics said in a court filing objecting to the agreement reached last year between Google and US publishers. “All of this access comes at an enormous cost to the fish caught within the net — the copyright owners.”

Google was sued in 2005 by authors and publishers who said the company was infringing their copyrights on a massive scale by digitizing books. Under the settlement, Google would pay $125 million and set up a “Book Rights Registry” so copyright owners could be compensated.