http://blog.authorsguild.org/2011/09...its-your-turn/
Above is a link to the list of HathiTrust's orphan works candidates posted on the Authors Guild website, also showing the threatened (and I do mean threatened) dates on which Hathi will release their works through its system. So far by stirring the pot with its lawsuit, AG has brought 4 non-orphan authors who actually have estates, publishers, and literary agents to light: James Salamanca, Walter Lippmann, Albert Bandura, and James Gould Cozzens. Orphaned means just what it says, that no one is responsible for the work in question, when in fact it appears that these four are no only not orphaned, but their parents/guardians are easily traceable. It strikes me that Hathi's definition of "orphaned" is beginning to look a little more like "out of print stuff we think people oughta be able to read." Nice thought, but it doesn't give them license to hijack an author's work. There are all kinds of other ways to bring good non-orphan material back into circulation, but all of it involves working things out with the people who actually own or control the rights.