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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...ort of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Was... ...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...N INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERTERRORISM Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 Dear Register Peters, Several grou... ...- based access for its collection, during which it discovered that for the books in the study, 22% of the publishers could not be found. 27 This Se... ...opyright owner. Examples include basic Internet searches, using old phone books, and searches for death certificates and records concerning estates.... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab...

...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...

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