The opponents of the Google Book settlement, who largely remain infuriated despite the late-Friday-filed revisions, have expressed the opinion that the revision of the contentious deal still has some unaddressed legal, privacy and business issues.

The critics said on Monday that though the revised Google book deal may placate overseas critics, it continues to give Google exclusive control in terms of commercialization of out-of-print books with unclaimed copyrights, and also fails to protect consumer privacy.

Though Google, via the revised settlement, has attempted to address the concerns - about unfair competitive advantage and copyright violation - of the US Department of Justice, the most notable change that made to the agreement is the limit to its extent of applicability.

Since the European Union (EU) as a whole, and many of its member countries, had raised objections to several aspects of the deal, whereby Google could offer scans of European works unlicensed for sale in the US, the revision eliminates most of the EU.

The scope of the deal now includes the UK, Canada and Australia, where the publishing business and copyright laws are similar to those in the US.

Commenting on the revision, Gary Reback, an antitrust lawyer and the Open Book Alliance leader, said: “The settlement is a total failure to address most of the problems the Justice Department raised and virtually all the problems raised by U.S. objectors and amicus [friends of the court] briefs.”