D: All Things Digital Conferences
While we continue in our belief that what Google did was an imperious act of copyright infringement, it is time to step off the battlefield and evaluate our losses and our gains. When we look at the new conditions of the revised settlement, it meets our standards of control over the intellectual properties that would otherwise remain at risk were we to stay out of the settlement.
— Gail Steinbeck, daughter-in-law of author John Steinbeck, on the family decision not to opt out of the Google Book Search Settlement. In April 2009, Steinbeck led a group of authors who petitioned the court for an extension on the opt-out deadline, with the argument that the given period was an insufficient for making an informed choice.