...ort of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Was... ...ngton, DC 20559-6000 • (202) 707-8350 January 23, 2006 Dear Chairman Hatch and Senator Leahy: Thank you for your request of the Copyright Office to st... ...works. As you know, the roundtable discussions we held in Washington, D.C. and California were well-attended, and the participants engaged in thoughtf... ... California were well-attended, and the participants engaged in thoughtful and productive discussion of the many complex issues involved in this matte... ...N INTELLIGENCE AND COUNTERTERRORISM Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 Dear Register Peters, Several grou... ...RMAN January 10, 2005 The Honorable Marybeth Peters Register of Copyrights Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540 Dear Register Peters: I understand... ............................................................23 1. Inadequate Information on the Work Itself................................................ .............................................. 28 3. Limitations of Existing Information Resources......................................................... .......................................................... 29 b. Third-Party Information Resources ........................................................

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Even where the user has made a reasonably diligent effort to find the owner, if the owner is not found, th...

...t for a user to qualify for the orphan works limitations on remedies: throughout the use of the work, the user must provide attribution to the author and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under the circumstances. The idea is that the user, in the course of using a work for which he has not received explicit permiss...