Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'orphan works'
Time to say goodbye, good luck, and happy trails to you!
I have so enjoyed my two years as the Center for Intellectual Property's Virtual Scholar, and my 20 months as your host here at Collectanea. Over these two years, I've kept an eye on and chatted about copyright matters, heard...
Google Book Search and orphan works
In Google Book Settlement, Business Trumps Ideals, reports Juan Perez in this insightful business article in PC World. Here's the quote that sums up the deal's novel approach to orphan works: Of the 7 million books Google has scanned, 1...
RIP
'Orphan Works' Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death | Threat Level from Wired.com. Ok, it's the market's turn now... Once the players are back on their feet....
CIP's Handbook - Cliff Lynch's Ch. 9 online
CIP's Intellectual Property Handbook, which you can peruse at, Research Initiatives and Publications - Center for Intellectual Property - UMUC, includes as Chapter 9 a talk that Cliff Lynch gave as keynote at one of the CIP annual symposia a...
OCLC's Copyright Evidence Registry makes its debut
Last spring, Bill Carney of the OCLC joined us as a panelist at the Center for Intellectual Property's Annual Symposium to talk about an endeavor that was, at the time, still in development. Well, his Copyright Evidence Registry [OCLC] launched...
How to kill an orphan works bill in 2 easy lessons
Public Knowledge (who works tirelessly on behalf of documentary filmmakers) announced on Thursday that two bills addressing orphan works had been introduced: Orphan Works 2008: House and Senate Bills Introduced. As usual, I urge you to read the bills. Public...
Orphan Works legislation: Round two
Congress reportedly will try to pass orphan works legislation again this session, introducing a bill as early as this week. After its March 13 hearing, at which 6 interested parties presented testimony (including the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, and...
Mass Digitization blogging project completed
After 6 weeks of drafting, posting, tracking blog statistics, and weekly writing in a journal about the experience, I have just completed my blogging experiment at Mass digitization ~ Changing copyright law and policy, by posting the Conclusion today. Here's...
Publishing trade association issues orphan works "rules"
A consortium of publishers announced this week that it had agreed upon a safe harbor for users of orphan works. The press release was reported widely (see, for example, the Law Librarian's Blog). Although the press release did not include...
Communia -- new EU public domain project
Peter Suber, Open Access News reports that the EU has just provided 1M euros in funding for a project to explore issues related to the public domain in a digital age. One million euros! That is a lot of money....
Are you my copyright mother?
Copyright genealogy has always been notoriously difficult. With no single, central registry keeping track of what was copyrighted, whether the appropriate formalities were followed, whether the copyright was renewed, whether the author is alive or dead, whether the copyright was...
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