...ghout the process the participants have addressed the issues forthrightly, with helpful dialogue and suggestions as to how this problem should be solv... ...be solved. The Report contains a specific legislative recommendation along with a discussion of our thinking behind the recommendation and the various... ...ore would likely choose not to use the work. This would be unfortunate and inconsistent with the purpose of the Copyright Act, because in such cases i... ...f old computer hardware wanted to use manuals, specifications, guides and articles with unlocatable owners, apparently in traditional fair use schol... ... system of intellectual property protection; namely, first, its Part III (Articles 41 to 61) contains detailed norms on enforcement of intellectual ... ... 199 Both the initial comments and the reply comments are summarized. Citations to some of the comments are provided in the footnotes, but these... ...e., not every comment that supported the position noted is cited. In the citation, the name of the commenter is followed by the number assigned to ... ...rticular, one commenter noted that publication of motion pictures has been inconsistent over the past century, see Loughney (700), and another commen... ... electronic mail to the e-mail address ‘‘orphanworks@loc.gov’’ (see file formats and information requirements under supplemental information below...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copy...