'Orphan' Tug of War

"Paul Courant, dean of libraries at the University of Michigan, said he thinks that rather than calling on the court to engineer the structure of the [Google] settlement to point toward open access, scholars should take matters into their own hands using the mechanisms that are already there. “We ought to start a movement to make sure every academic executes a Creative Commons license, so that their digitized work will become freely available,” Courant, who has publicly supported the pending settlement, said, adding that such a push could start a snowball effect in favor of free access...."