Comments on: How bad are the proposed Orphan Works bills?

By: Scholarly Communications @ Duke » Orphan works, fair use and best practices

Scholarly Communications @ Duke » Orphan works, fair use and best practices — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:19:29 +0000

[...] by Congress in 2008 as attempts to solve the orphan works problem (I blogged about those bills here and here). The revised statement of best practices is an explicit attempt to define a term that [...]

By: Blake Walter

Blake Walter — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:20:19 +0000

Thanks, Kevin — this is a helpful distillation of two conflicting, complex potential additions to the already treacherous landscape of copyright regulation. When I started working in libraries almost 20 years ago, I readily embraced the fact that I was also going to have to become a computer geek to do well at my job. I am now wondering if I am also going to have to become a legal geek to continue. To my mind, a key phrase from your posting is “it has been a long time since a genuinely user-centered proposal has even been considered by Congress.” User-centric will never have the lobbying clout of business-centric, but I hope this trend can continue.

By: Molly Kleinman » Blog Archive » Perspectives on the new orphan works bill

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:43:05 +0000

[...] Kevin Smith takes a more hopeful position, though he also sees the bills as limited at best. He focuses on [...]