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Re: [Digital BW] Copyright control

2008-05-07 by Mark Savoia

That is non-lawyer talk? Thanks.
:)

Mark
http://www.stillrivereditions.com

On May 7, 2008, at 11:12 AM, David Emerick wrote:

> Is this enough?
>
> he 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
> himself decides has been a "reasonably diligent search." In a radical
> departure from existing copyright law and business practice, the U.S.
> Copyright Office has proposed that Congress grant such infringers  
> freedom to
> ignore the rights of the author and use the work for any purpose,  
> including
> commercial usage. In the case of visual art, the word "author" means
> "artist."
>
>
> david emerick
>
> dnemerick@...
> http://staff.smcm.edu/dnemerick/
> http://smcmmediacenter.blogspot.com/
> http://emerick.blogspot.com
>
>


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