...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...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... ...would be happy to discuss the Report with you or your staff. Respectfully, Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Enclosure The Honorable Orrin G. Hat... ...happy to discuss the Report with you or your staff. Respectfully, Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Enclosure The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch Chairm... ...ates Senator United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510 January 5, 2005 Ms. Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights James Madison Memorial Building 101... ...- 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 copyrig...

...Many commenters were in favor of determining whether a search was reasonable on an “ad hoc” or case-by-case basis, whereby each search is evaluated according to its circumstances. This approach was offered as having the advantage of flexibility to cover t...

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...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... ...would be happy to discuss the Report with you or your staff. Respectfully, Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Enclosure The Honorable Orrin G. Hat... ...happy to discuss the Report with you or your staff. Respectfully, Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Enclosure The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch Chairm... ...ates Senator United States Senate WASHINGTON, DC 20510 January 5, 2005 Ms. Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights James Madison Memorial Building 101... ...- 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 copyrig...

...We also recommend one other threshold requirement for a user to qualify for the orphan works limitations on remedies: throughout the use of the work, the user must provide attribution to the author and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under the circumstances. The idea is that the user, in the course o...