Google, the Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers has until Nov. 9 to revise the settlement to a long-standing class-action copyright infringement suit brought by AG and AAP against the technology giant. Critics of the settlement fear that the brief time line will be inadequate to address their concerns, which range from giving Google a virtual monopoly on the digital display and sale of orphan books, to short-changing authors financially, to abusing the class-action process. (Take a wild guess which side I'm on in in this issue.)
Here's a link to the article in the NYT.
If you're new around here and you're interested in more of my ranting about the Google Settlement, you can get your fill here.
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