...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... ...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC... ...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... ...er cannot be located. I am pleased to present our "Report on Orphan Works" in response to your request. The response from the public to this study was... ... COPYRIGHT OFFICE R EPORT ON ORPHAN WORKS finding. Our discussions with museums, universities and libraries indicated that in many orphan works si... ...blic domain. 141 Other examples include the use of a diary from a Civil War soldier 142 and sheet music from a Gilbert & Sullivan musical. 143 ... ... without the permission of the copyright owner: for example, concerts by military bands. 160 The Berne reproduction exception test has come to be ... ...ational Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 295, Arlington, Virginia 22230 or send e-mail to splimpto@nsf.gov. Copies of the submissi...

...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 copy...