Am I reading this right? If the owner of a "copyrighted work" cannot be located by way of any "reasonably diligent search", anyone can then use their work in anyway they choose, under the proposed "Orphan Work Act" currently being considered in the US. The Orphan Works Act defines an "orphan work" as any copyrighted work whose author any infringer says he is unable to locate with what the infringer ... Read full entry
New US copyright laws will make orphans of our work
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 25 July, 2008 to the comment subset
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