Pamela Samuelson Remains Skeptical About Google Book Deal

-Library Journal, October 1, 2009 by Francine Fialkoff
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698035.html

The more experts like Peters and Samuelson delve into the settlement, the more they uncover troubling implications. It is clearly not in the best interest of libraries or the various publics they serve.

-The New York Times, October 7, 2009 by Motoko Rich
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/technology/internet/08google.html?_r=2

Pamela Samuelson, an Internet and copyright expert at the University of California, Berkeley, who has led a group of scholars objecting to the settlement, said she also had doubts about the timeline. “It’s hard to believe that so much could change that it would respond to all serious objections,” Ms. Samuelson wrote in an e-mail message.

-The Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2009 by Jessica E. Vascellaro
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574459042709660608.html#printMode

Pamela Samuelson, an intellectual property professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said she invited around two dozen people in February to a private conference to study the settlement in secret. Instead of inviting Google, she invited class-action lawyers and others to provide “tutorials” on various aspects of the 141-page legal document, she said.