The title really says it all.
CliveChris Thompson, Sergey Brin Blows Smoke up Your Ass, Slate, Oct. 9, 2009:
But a Xerox machine could make the same boast; we don’t give it the right to exclusively negotiate royalties with authors who may not even know their works are being reproduced. Even though Google didn’t set out to hold a monopoly on millions of books, that’s what it ultimately tried to acquire. And Brin’s effort to minimize the barriers his rivals face to replicate Google’s archive is just insulting.