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a blog post by your director. "Book search will not work like web search" http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/01/02/trade_for_our_own_acc ount " As the New Yorker's Google's Moon Shot article relates, the most likely settlement agreement would involve a voluntary collective license in which revenue from viewing or sharing texts is shared among publishers, authors, and Google. "Well, I love deals like that," one friend opined sarcastically. "Everyone gets something for nothing, except maybe the libraries. People get money for things they don't deserve." I didn't understand, and he explained, "For orphan works, where there are undetermined rights holders, there would undoubtedly be revenue sharing between Google and the publishers, and the authors, if they are all treated collectively. So these parties will still be making money that does not really belong to them, except by virtue of any agreement that they might come to terms on." In other words, who ever owns the rights -- because no one knows for sure in the case of orphans, whether it be publisher or author or public -- the money will almost inevitably flow to commercial parties that have no claim to it; in the case where the work is rightfully public domain, but has not been exposed as such, then publishers and authors would make money at the public's expense."