U. Of California Profs Raise Questions About Google Books

“A group of prominent faculty representatives from the University of California, one of Google’s earliest and closest allies in its plan to digitize books from major libraries, is the latest to raise concerns about important aspects of a high-profile class-action settlement between Google and groups representing authors and publishers.” Among other things, the professors argue “that the settlement is not equally fair to all members of the author sub-class and does not fully address the needs of academic authors.”