Google Book Settlement at Georgetown

Last week, Georgetown held a symposium on the Google Book Settlement. I was unable to attend, but Siva Vaidhyanathan and James Grimmelmann spoke, and you can see their presentations at this link. I wish I'd been able to go to this and the Columbia symposium on the same issue--good summaries at the LibraryLaw Blog. With many of the commenters, I share a deep feeling that the publishers active in the settlement shouldn't be getting paid for orphan works; that's much more insulting, in a very real way, than Google or re-users getting paid for them, because the publishers not only aren't the owners of the orphan works, they're the competitors.