Final Google Settlement Objections Include Microsoft, France and Connecticut.

The final deadline for filing objections to the Google Books Settlement has now passed, and the District Court's web site shows a wave of new filings, mostly objections.The Computer & Communications Industry Associates filed a brief in support of the agreement, while new objectors include Microsoft and Yahoo, the state of Connecticut, a group of authors led by Harold Bloom, the Internet Archive, the Open Book Alliance (accusing the parties of "a trail of what can only be called misdirection"), Consumer Watchdog, 22 Japanese authors who are key members of the Japan P.E.N. Club, a coalition of authors and publishers concerned with privacy calling themselves Privacy Authors and Publishers, and the Canadian Standards Association.

From Publishers Lunch.