Orphan Works: A Lame Duck Countdown
Part IV: Moving the Cats’ Food
12.04.08
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 and concluded that government should “incentivize” creators to register their work with for-profit registries as a condition of protecting [...]
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 from the Report on Orphan Works released by the Copyright [...]
FROM THE ILLUSTRATORS’ PARTNERSHIP
An Unprecedented Grassroots Response
10.6.08
Thank you to everyone who wrote, phoned and faxed Congress during the last hectic weeks. Speaking virtually with one voice, artists have rejected the Orphan Works Act.
Does that mean it’s dead? No. Far from it. Lobbyists will continue to promote it, this Congress may yet find a way to [...]