UMich launches project to identify orphan works

http://www.lib.umich.edu/marketing-and-communications/news/mlibrary-launches-project-identify-orphan-works The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are so-called “orphans,” that is, in-copyright works whose owners cannot be id..