[Libs-Or] [Fwd: [ALA-WO:113] Library Community Files Comments on Orphan Works]

[Diedre Conkling]

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Date: 2005/03/29 Tue AM 11:47:28 PST
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Subject: [ALA-WO:113] Library Community Files Comments on Orphan Works

ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
Volume 14, Number 32
March 29, 2005

In This Issue: Library community files comments on orphan works

The library community has filed comments (attached) with the U.S.
Copyright Office in support of a proposal to change copyright law to
address issues surrounding orphan works. Orphan works are those
copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to find.
The Copyright Office issued a Notice of Inquiry on January 26, 2005
[http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2005/70fr3739.html] soliciting advice
on the problem of orphan works. Many organizations have taken advantage
of this important opportunity to address the problem of using works
still protected under the ever lengthening copyright terms (thanks to
the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 and the Sonny Bono
Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998), but whose owners cannot be
identified.

The library associations worked with many in the non-profit community
including the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic (at
American University's Washington College of Law), the College Art
Association (CAA), the American Historical Association, cultural
institutions, and public interest groups in developing a "legislative
fix" to the Copyright Act to address the issues associated with orphan
works.  Also attached is the proposal by the Glushko-Samuelson
Intellectual Property Clinic.

All of the comments will be available from the Library of Congress
Copyright Office. < http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/index.html> Reply
comments are to be filed on or before May 9.


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Diedre Conkling
     
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