Call me paranoid and suspicious but this bit of legislation makes me raise my eyebrows. Will corporations be able to keep an orphaned "document" after they have done a "reasonable search" and been "unable" to find the creator of the work? Contact your senators and representatives.
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/
Mark Simon was writing about a bill that died in 2006, but a new one
is being introduced as we speak (go to
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200804/042408e.html to read info about
it). Please refer to the following websites for more up-to-date information, opinions (pro and con), and legal actions about the "orphan works" issue:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/12/countering-the-fud-a.html
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?
searchterm=00264
http://www.nikondigital.org/dps/dps-v-4-08.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphaned_work
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/woissues/copyrightb/federallegislation/
orphanworks/orphanworks.cfm
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