KMWorld.com: Pros and cons of the Google book deal

"And, since the people who will make money from orphaned works are precisely not the people who created or published the works-—by definition, those people cannot be found-—I like the idea of shunting some of that money into a fund to help increase open access to all the works of our culture. The settlement does talk about donating unclaimed funds to non-profits "that advance literacy, freedom of expression, and/or education," but makes no commitment to the amounts, and does not directly name open access. This should be a requirement, not an afterthought."