Pamela Samuelson Explains Scholars’ Opposition to Google Settlement

NPR, ″all tech considered″ blog, August 25, 2009 by Laura Sydell
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2009/08/uc_berkeley_law_scholar_tells.html

“A lot of academic authors never really wrote those books for the money in the first place,” says Samuelson. She says what many scholars want is for their ideas to reach a large number of people. If the current settlement is approved, Samuelson says people will have to pay for access to digitized versions of work by scholars who feel it’s more important for people to see their work and share their ideas than it is for them to make a few extra pennies.