Canadian authors oppose the Google Book Settlement

A group of Canadian authors have posted an online petition for Canadian authors and copyright-holders who wish to protest the Google Book Settlement:

Even in its revised form, it is an assault on international copyright law and has distorted class action law for the benefit of a predatory corporation.

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If the settlement is not rejected, we see no reason to trust in the future. The Google Corporation has behaved in an illegal and predatory fashion in the past and will likely go on behaving in this way.

We join with the writers’ and publishers’ groups, as well as with the foreign law courts and governments, who reject the settlement in its entirety.

Posted only yesterday, the petition already has more than ninety signatures.