Google Settlement News 11/17/09

Gavin Baker at Open Access News has a new post outlining the implications of the revised Google Book settlement for open access. From the post:

…the Unclaimed Works Fiduciary apparently does not have the ability to make orphan works OA without the agreement of the Registry board (which is composed of publisher and author representatives)

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