If you're a UK author or literary agent, or an author resident in the UK, and regard the Google Book Settlement with alarm and loathing - whether or not you've opted in/out - and further if you're not at all happy with the way that our political parties, in power and in opposition, seem so keen on setting up their own statutory body that will have powers to licence various aspects of written works with scant regard to copyright law and authors' other rights -

- then go and have a look at Action on Authors' Rights, an initiative that's grown out of the exhaustive (and exhausting) investigations made into all this by Gillian Spraggs.

The more voices unite to protest, the better chance we have of being heard.