Constitutional Law

New Legislation on "Orphan Works"

The Future of Music Coalition has this blog entry on recently proposed legislation to resolve the copyright question of “orphan works.” As the article explains, orphan works are “copyrighted works [e.g., a piece of music] whose owners are difficult or impossible to locate.”

This is important because, without the permission of the copyright owner, the work cannot be licensed for additional uses. According to an FMC fact sheet, orphan works comprise the majority of the creative works of the 20th century.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).