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Title: USA's Orphan Works bill
Post by: Adam on June 03, 2008, 12:48:51 AM

http://www.sellyourtvconceptnow.com/orphan.html
http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/04/25/orphan-works-bills-introduced/
http://photodoto.com/orphan-works-bill/
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/392

Thoughts on that?  Is the USA abandoning the Bern Convention by doing this?  How will it directly affect all of you?

Title: Re: USA's Orphan Works bill
Post by: Yeratel on June 03, 2008, 01:33:48 AM

I don't think it's going to have much effect on writers who make books and magazine articles. If there's a physical copy, it's usually easy to show publication date and copyright holder. What it's mostly going to affect is stuff distributed in electronic format, particularly stuff posted or distributed anonymously, including photographs, music, weblog entries, and things like Wiki articles that are collaborative. After stuff has been around the world on the Internet a few times, maybe translated, retranslated, cut, pasted, spell corrected and edited, it can be tough to tell where it originally came from.

Title: Re: USA's Orphan Works bill
Post by: Starbeam on June 03, 2008, 01:57:25 AM

Thread about this in Touchy Topics from when it was being talked about a couple months ago.  http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,6978.0.html (http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,6978.0.html)