Google Settlement

[madrobins]

Over on the Book View Cafe blog, Ursula LeGuin has posted an open letter to the Author's Guild on the Google Settlement, about which I can only say: What She Said. I have thought right along that the whole thing started as a really keen idea by people at Google who didn't think it through--I don't (optimist that I am) think they intended evil. But as the holder of copyrights and someone who wants to be paid for the work that I do, I'm opting out--and I'm appalled that the Author's Guild rolled on it.