Steinbecks and Guthries Give Google Settlement Thumbs Up

Perhaps the slow journey to an end to the ongoing negotiations around the Google settlement will soon reach its end. At least if you put stock in the influence of the heirs of novelist John Steinbeck and musician and author Woody Guthrie. Both parties have submitted statements reversing their previous stances against the settlement, saying that the revised settlement, submitted to a New York district Court this past November, according to The New York Times.

Gail Steinbeck, wife of the author’s son, had originally sent a letter to influential authors upon the announcement of the original settlement, urging them to speak out against the settlement’s terms.

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