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December 8, 2008 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.Chairman Committee on the JudiciaryU.S. House of Representatives2426 Rayburn House Office BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Conyers: On [...]

Yesterday, many of us received a letter from our Senator, one of the most prominent lawmakers in the country, expressing his support for strong intellectual property rights protections as a [...]

Moving The Cats’ Food The Copyright Office received about 215 relevant letters to their Orphan Works Study. From this they deduced a claim of widespread market failure in commercial markets [...]

On Thursday October 2, each member of the House of Representatives received the following letter: October 2, 2008 Dear [Member of Congress], As lawmakers struggled Friday to prop up private [...]

These are excerpts from written statements submitted by the Illustrators’ Partnership to the Small Business Administration September 16. The SBA Roundtable is the only forum so far conducted by [...]

Wired Magazine has posted an article: “’Orphan Works’ Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death”http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/orphan-works-co.html Well, we can hope. But we’re dealing [...]

1. Web firms quietly win copyright victory in Congress SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) Sept 29 — As the media turned its attention last weekend to battles on Capitol Hill over the fate of the [...]

The architects of the Orphan Works Act have already placed testaments to the bill on their websites: Senator Leahy: http://leahy.senate.gov/issues/OrphanWorks.html Senator Hatch: [...]

Never Too Busy to Pass Special Interest Legislation As lawmakers struggled Friday to clean up the mess on Wall Street, sponsors of the Orphan Works Act passed more special interest legislation. [...]

SEPT 27 Yesterday, in a cynical move, the sponsors of the Senate Orphan Works Act passed their controversial bill by a controversial practice known as hotlining. With lawmakers scrambling to [...]