San Jose Mercury News
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For opponents like Pam Samuelson, a copyright expert at the University of California, Berkeley, who helped organize opposition to the digital books plan, Brin’s omissions rankle.
“To me that sounds like they don’t care what the Department of Justice thinks. It sounds a little like hubris to me,” Samuelson said. “Google has done a great job of shining the spotlight on things about the settlement that people would find attractive, but they don’t tell you some of the stuff that would be most worrisome about it.”
Google’s partnership with authors and publishers to scan old books is not the future of publishing, Clancy said. “We’ve viewed the settlement as a solution into the past for the books that would otherwise be left behind in this digital revolution.”