Roy Blount: Orphan Books No Obstacle To Settlement

Authors Guild president Roy Blount Jr. has posted a letter in support of the Google books settlement. “Blount played down concerns expressed by some over orphan works, writing, ‘I can’t see any reason to dissent from the settlement over the matter of orphan books.’ Blount wrote that he is confident many of the rightsholders of orphan works will be found. Authors, he said[,] ‘are all findable.'”