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Statement of Brad Holland Founding Board Member Illustrators’ Partnership of America Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of [...]

Webcast of the Oversight Hearing“Remedies for Small Copyright Claims”House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, The Internet, and Intellectual Property [...]

This is the text of IPA’s written testimony to the House Judiciary Subcommittee, submitted March 14, 2006. by Brad Holland and Cynthia Turner RE: Orphan Works Amendment to 1976 Copyright Act The [...]

For over a year, we’ve used these emails to warn you about the coming Orphan Works amendment. Now it’s time to call it by its real name: This is not an “orphan works amendment.” An OW amendment [...]

March 8 – Public Knowledge President Gigi B. Sohn said today that Congress should set a fixed amount of damages – $200 per use or a similar amount,” to compensate artists whose work [...]

In our last two emails, we’ve cited the opinion of experts that the Orphan Works amendment must pass the TRIPS Three-Step Test or risk “inconsistency” with international copyright law. So what is [...]

Legal scholars Jane Ginsburg and Paul Goldstein have warned that Orphan Works legislation risks “inconsistency” with the three-step test of TRIPS art. 13 and Article 5(2) of the International [...]

The European Union is also considering the problem of orphan works. Here’s the submission of IFRRO (The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations) to the i2010 Digital [...]

Audio mp3’s of March 8th House Subcommittee Hearing [...]

From Copyright Office Transcripts/Orphan Works Roundtables 7/26/05: “The thing that I would encourage the Copyright Office to consider is not just the very, very small scale -the one user who [...]