KEI Statement SCCR 32 Day 4 on “Orphan works” and Libraries and Archives
I will be speaking here as a user of libraries and archives and as a user of out of print and orphan works for my past academic work and my research today.
The US Copyright Office held a two day roundtable event on the topic, “Orphan Works and Mass Digitization.” The two days were split into ten sessions, with extensive panels convened for each roundtable discussion. The meetings were held in the Montpelier Room at the Madison building of the Library of Congress, with the exception of the afternoon panels on the second day, which was held downstairs in the hearing room of the Copyright Office. Continue Reading
Orphan Works are copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate. Undertanding the access and dissemination problems that these kind of works impose to society, Governments have began to explore ways to address the issue. Canada Canada… Continue Reading