After the Authors Guild has decided to show it really is against the continuing education university libraries, but also started a game disappointing "Gotcha." Specifically, the Guild to find JR Salamanca, an author who could not find HathiTrust. The HathiTrust had identified a novel Salamanca on the list of potential orphan works. The list is performed as expected - enough time for authors to identify and stop the work of orphans will be available as a digital work.

However, this is HathiTrust look bad, and put the project on hold. The best answer, however, was the director of Duke University students of communications, Kevin Smith, who wrote an open letter asking him not to join the demand for Salamanca:



not a comfortable position of being a pawn in a game of "witch hunt," especially when it comes to litigation. What I mean is the same as the authors say the faculty of the institution where I work ". Consider carefully when their own interests are, and manage their copyrights to serve those interests"

[....]

I'm sure I must say that libraries, including those intended to participate in the orphan works project Hathi, not their enemies. We can help authors to find readers who do not think she should be suspicious activity. So think for a moment the country lost

and what could be better for him and for you.

The sad reality is that

the country lost

has become a rather obscure work. Amazon.com shows only two copies for sale. In the libraries of Duke, the last transaction log that we have for his novel in 2004, when our copy was sent to the high storage density. He has not left the facility one time since, and our system does not display the circulations in the previous decade, ie. One of the famous "laws" of librarianship is that each book should have on their readers, and the current system, I fear, is not taken his book to new readers.
be said that the Authors Guild, will not help in this regard. He's not going to publish a new edition of