Users to USTR: Don’t Sign Away Our Ability to Fix the Orphan Works Problem

The United States’ excessive copyright terms have led to an orphan works crisis in this country. Tens of thousands of books, films, music recordings, and other cultural works across decades have been made completely inaccessible by copyright’s strict monopoly, which can last more than 140 years. That casts a shroud of legal uncertainty over orphan works—works where the author or rightsholder cannot be identified or located—which makes using, preserving, or sharing them risky and essentially renders them culturally invisible and forbidden.

From Users to USTR: Don’t Sign Away Our Ability to Fix the Orphan Works Problem | Electronic Frontier Foundation

September 14, 2015 by Blake Uncategorized 0

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