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Good News, Bad News
Copyright Modernization Act pulled from this Congress, Smith vows to pass it next session First the good news: The Copyright Modernization Act (aka Orphan Works Act) appears to be dead for this [...]
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Manager’s Amendment
Amendment to Copyright Modernization Act requires the Copyright Office to create a text-searchable database of visual works. The Copyright Modernization Act was scheduled for mark-up today but [...]
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Sugar Coating the Orphan Works Act
It’s transparently irresponsible to legalize the abuse of private property on the premise that you might create some undefined “remedies” to handle the abuse. The new Copyright Modernization Act [...]
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Orphan Works Update: Mark-up Postponed
The Copyright Modernization Act of 2006 was pulled from the schedule for mark-up today. House Judiciary IP Subcommittee Chairman Lamar Smith said that representatives of the various interests [...]
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Orphan Works Go Ballistic
Smith introduces The Copyright Modernization Act of 2006 In our Senate testimony on Orphan Works, we warned that “the Orphan Works Act is not an Orphan Works Act at all, but a radically new [...]