Comments on: Boost for Gutenberg-style pub domain sites? ‘New Orphaned Works Act would limit copyright liability’ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/boost-for-gutenberg-style-pub-domain-sites-new-orphaned-works-act-would-limit-copyright-liability/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Preston http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/boost-for-gutenberg-style-pub-domain-sites-new-orphaned-works-act-would-limit-copyright-liability/comment-page-1/#comment-778618 Preston Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:34:47 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/25/boost-for-gutenberg-style-pub-domain-sites-new-orphaned-works-act-would-limit-copyright-liability/#comment-778618 I suspect there may be some truth to that. I recently visited an artists forum in which the overwhelming sentiment was that this law would be very bad for artists. They argued that copyright currently does not *require* a person to register their work, however the danger of your work being labled an orphan goes up significantly if you don't register each and every piece of work AND keep your contact information up to date. It completely flips the burden from the one who wants to reuse the material to the creator. I suspect there may be some truth to that. I recently visited an artists forum in which the overwhelming sentiment was that this law would be very bad for artists. They argued that copyright currently does not *require* a person to register their work, however the danger of your work being labled an orphan goes up significantly if you don’t register each and every piece of work AND keep your contact information up to date. It completely flips the burden from the one who wants to reuse the material to the creator.

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/boost-for-gutenberg-style-pub-domain-sites-new-orphaned-works-act-would-limit-copyright-liability/comment-page-1/#comment-776037 Rob Preece Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:22:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/25/boost-for-gutenberg-style-pub-domain-sites-new-orphaned-works-act-would-limit-copyright-liability/#comment-776037 Could this be Hollywood protection at its finest? If you think about what works are most likely to be 'orphaned,' you'll find novels rather than movies. So, Hollywood gets a new batch of material to consider making movies about and doesn't have to worry about some author knocking on the door and saying, 'hey, I wrote that.' I'm not saying I disagree, but I certainly feel that it isn't authors or book publishers who have driven the changes in copyright, it's Hollywood. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com Could this be Hollywood protection at its finest? If you think about what works are most likely to be ‘orphaned,’ you’ll find novels rather than movies. So, Hollywood gets a new batch of material to consider making movies about and doesn’t have to worry about some author knocking on the door and saying, ‘hey, I wrote that.’

I’m not saying I disagree, but I certainly feel that it isn’t authors or book publishers who have driven the changes in copyright, it’s Hollywood.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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