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White Paper on Orphan Works: Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project
The first white paper, published on 19 December 2011, titled Orphan Works: Definitional Issues, addresses the issue of Orphan Works by considering four different approaches to provide the basic theorethical framework for any further discussion of possible practical solutions.
The paper therefore describes and compares the approach of the U.S. Copyright Office; of the Google Books Settlement; of the European Nordic Countries with the ECL model and finally considers the approach suggested by the European Union with the MoU on Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works and the Commission Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Certain Permitted Uses of Orphan Works.
The white paper can be downloaded here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974614. The next white paper in this same series will focus on the range of proposed solutions to the issue of making available Orphan Works in the digital environment.
The symposium “Orphan Works and Mass Digitization: Obstacles and Opportunities,” will take place on 12-13 April 2012 in Berkeley. The ARROW approach and results will also be presented and discussed in the symposium, as ARROW Scientific Director Piero Attanasio will be among the guest speakers (and one of the few European voices in the panel).
