In Berne Convention, Copyright, Copyright Office Orphan Works Study, Marybeth Peters, Orphan Works amendments
Posted Orphan Works: Back Again
In Orphan Works Land, no news has been good news, but that’s about to change: [...]
In Copyright, Copyright Act, Copyright Office Orphan Works Study, Glushko-Samuelson Copyright Clearance Initiative, Google, H.R. 5889, Illustrators Partnership, Orphan Works
Posted Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part III
215 Letters Nearly 300 million people live in the US. How many of them does it take to make an “orphan works problem”? Apparently 215 (give or take a few). That’s the only conclusion we can draw [...]
In Berne Convention, Charles Dickens, Copyright, Copyright Office Orphan Works Study, Glushko-Samuelson Copyright Clearance Initiative, Illustrators Partnership, Orphan Works, Peter Jaszi, Victor Hugo
Posted Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part II
The Legislative Blueprint The “legislative blueprint” for the Orphan Works Act was not drafted by the Copyright Office after their year-long Orphan Works study, but before it, by law students at [...]
In Copyright, Copyright Act, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Office Orphan Works Study, Illustrators Partnership, Orphan Works
Posted Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown, Part I
Little Known Facts Congress will reconvene for a lame duck session next week. That means Orphan Works backers may try again to pass their bill by suspending the rules. We believe this bill is too [...]