-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Public Knowledge supports it: http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1553
So does the American Library Association (though apparently they prefer the Senate version to the House bill): http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2969/library-group-favors-senate-over-house-bill-on-orphan-works I haven't been following this in great detail but I'm inclined to take the response of some artists' groups as histrionics/misunderstanding. Unless the bill really is awful (and I have a lot of faith in PK not to back a bad bill), it seems unfortunate they're holding up progress on this crucial issue. Of course, the best way to prevent orphan works is to shorten the copyright term. But this is an important and necessary approach as well. Dean Jansen wrote: | I haven't seen much discussion around this bill yet: | http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5889/show | | "This bill would limit the amount of damages a copyright holder could | collect from an infringer if the infringer performed a diligent search | for the copyright holder before using their work. The goal of the | legislation is to free up for reuse copyrighted works whose holders | cannot be found. It would also set up a process for the Copyright | Office to certify commercially-produced visual registries to help | people locate the holder of a copyright and prevent the orphaning of | works in the future." | | The representative behind it has plenty of entertainment industry | ties: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00008094 | | Visual artists seem to hate it: http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/ | | Looks like it actually passed in the house a few days ago: | http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2978/orphan-works-bill-sails-through-house-panel | | Anyone have any interesting links or opinions on it? | | --Dean | _______________________________________________ | Discuss mailing list | [email protected] | http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss - -- Gavin Baker http://www.gavinbaker.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIJerVtLXQdLhFpekRAstBAJ9zfSRUa0/YXSedS0U7pZFviVpvOgCfXV4x h4dlqnqn6R7NdAmRCiz3T8A= =YeTi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
