Heirs of author John Steinbeck seek to slow $125 million Google Books Search settlement

Steinbeck Heirs Seek To Slow Google Books Settlement
The New York Times, April 27, 2009
By Miguel Helft

A group of authors and the heirs of others, including representatives of the estate of John Steinbeck, and of the musician Arlo Guthrie, are asking a federal judge to delay by four months the deadline for authors to decide whether or not to participate in the class action settlement of landmark lawsuit against Google. [...]

Read the entire article in The New York Times.

How does John Steinbeck fit into Martian SF? Checkout "Steinbeck in Alfred Coppel's "Mars Is Ours" (1954)," which I posted on this blog in March 2008.