Found one! We re-unite an author with an “orphaned work.”

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

From the Authors Guild: "About two minutes of googling turned up a professor emeritus of one of the HathiTrust “orphan works” candidates. He lives in suburban Maryland. His second book sold a reported one million copies, and he’s listed in IMDb (two of his books were turned into movies: one starred Elvis Presley, the other Warren Beatty). He has a literary agent, and he signed an e-book contract earlier this month. No, we’re not making this up...."

Link:

http://blog.authorsguild.org/2011/09/14/found-one-we-re-unite-an-author-with-an-%E2%80%9Corphaned-work-%E2%80%9D/

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Tags:

ru.no oa.new oa.books oa.orphans oa.litigation oa.hathi

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 12:42

Date published:

09/16/2011, 09:57