-The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2010 by Jessica E. Vascellaro
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/01/27/amazon-and-others-slam-revised-google-books-deal/
U.C. Berkeley Professor Pam Samuelson submitted an objection on behalf of a group of academic authors. “We do not believe that the settlement of a class action lawsuit is a proper way to make such a profound set of changes in rights of authors and publishers, in markets for books, and procedures for resolving disputes as the (settlement) would bring about,” the letter read.
-Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2010 by Steve Kolowich
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/29/google
“We believe that most unclaimed works in the [Google Book Search] corpus will prove to be books written by scholars for scholars, and most such authors would prefer that their out-of-print books be available on an open-access basis,” the professors say in a public draft of the letter.