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So, there's orphan works problem in a nutshell: both creativity and commerce are in suspended animation, with no one -- not the photographer/copyright owner, not the archive, not the publisher -- able to express, document, or profit from the works in question.
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The following posts link to A Real-Life Orphan Works Dilemma:
"and use the work for any purpose, including commercial usage. - Jeffrey Zeldman After reading his article I could not believe how such a bill could even be proposed. I found the defense for the proposed act deep down in the comments of his post (?A Real Life Orphan Works Dilemma?, ?Release the Orphan Works?). It seems like the the organizations that this bill is supposed to help the most are non-profits like museums and libraries. The argument is that many times these organizations are stuck between a rock and a hard"
"Blaming the Flickr API for copyright infringement?: (Techdirt), California proposes iTunes download tax again: (Techdirt), Brooklyn Historical Society will not allow use of old photos due to copyright fears: (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Education fair use initiative at Harvard: (43(B)log), (The IP ADR Blog), Glushko-Samuelson IP Clinic and Center for Social Media develop ?Code of best practice in fair use for online video?: ("
"http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/court-rejects-attempt-to-expand-the-dmca * A Real-Life Orphan Works Dilemma A New York Times article about a history teacher/part-time book publisher depicts the orphan works problem in living color. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/07/a-real-life-orphan-works-dilemma : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : miniLinks (no miniLinks this week) : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : . : Announcements * Stop by the EFF Booth at the O'Reilly Open Source"
" "Who loses out? The reader, the public, the people you want to spread the history to" for the full text of this article go to: http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/who-loses-out-reader-public-people-you.html EFF's Richard Esguerra spots "a clear, real-life example of the orphan works problem" in this recent New York Times article on a local high school history teacher and labor-of-love publisher of books of historical Brooklyn photographs who has been blocked from using certain orphan"
"boy of Image Comics and Top Cow Comics, and more recently, Marvel. [?]Improv Everywhere: mass twins on subway Monday, 7 July 2008, 11:25 am The wonderful Improv Everywhere's latest prank involved a bunch of identical twins riding the same. [?]A Real-Life Orphan Works Dilemma Monday, 7 July 2008, 11:05 am Though the orphan works problem can seem arcane, the New York Times provides a clear, real-life exam. [?]UFO turns out to be, er, something commonplace Monday, 7 July 2008, 10:54 am"
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