U. of Michigan Copyright Sleuths Start New Project to Investigate Orphan Works; Chronicle of Higher Education, 5/16/11

Marc Parry, Chronicle of Higher Education; U. of Michigan Copyright Sleuths Start New Project to Investigate Orphan Works:

"The University of Michigan on Monday announced a new project to identify orphan works among the millions of volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library...

The 8.7-million-volume HathiTrust collection, pooled by a consortium of research libraries largely from scans made by Google, may contain in the neighborhood of 2.5 million orphan works, according to one recent estimate."