Excellent article on an extremely difficult point of US copyright law (even
more difficult when viewed from abroad). Thanks for posting.
The publication doctrine creates, depressingly, yet another class of “orphan
works:” orphans who might have parents, but are trapped in archives with
Worth a read:
Copyright at the Museum: Using the Publication Doctrine to Free Art and
History.
Deborah R. Gerhardt University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - School
of Law; University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, September 5, 2014
