Academics, ProQuest, Networks Object to Google Settlement - 9/10/2009 - Library Journal

"In a letter signed by 64 academic authors and researchers, Pamela Samuelson, Professor of Law & Information, University of California, Berkeley, asked Judge Denny Chin to condition his approval of the Google Book Search settlement on several modifications that would be fairer 'toward academic authors who constitute a far more sizeable proportion of the Author Subclass than the members of the Authors Guild do.' The signatories...[argue that] 'academic authors would...have insisted on much different terms than the Authors Guild did, especially in respect of pricing of institutional subscriptions, open access, annotation sharing, privacy, and library user rights to print out pages from out-of-print books....' "