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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...iety of American Archivists, Stanford University Libraries, UCLA Film and Television Archive); • museums (e.g., The J. Paul Getty Trust, The Metropo... ...s (e.g., American Federation of Musicians (“AFM”), American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...Trust); • recording artists and musicians (e.g., American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (“AFTRA”), Recording Artists Coalition); • r... ...ith a firm understanding of both the domestic and international copyright systems. This section, therefore, describes the legal background and exam... ...uals and the like. Much of the value in these works is the facts, ideas, systems, and methods described in them, not necessarily the particular expr... ... able to bear it: the owner of the copyright. 222 Supporters of formal systems argued and supporters of case- ... ...sers, and issue approvals. 285 Some of these expressed approval for the Canadian orphan works system, under which the Canadian Copyright Board rev... ...se. 286 Several other commenters, however, expressed disapproval of the Canadian system: these commenters often pointed to the fact that the Cana... ...5 licenses between 1990 and January 2005). Generally, the critics of the Canadian system felt that it would impose an undue administrative burden o...

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