Fwd: CAA lobbying on copyright legislation

June 28, 2006

Type: discussion

please distribute where appropriate.
thanks!
jg

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Jun 28, 2006 4:48 PM
Subject: CAA lobbying on copyright legislation

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CAA has been working hard to get the US copyright law revised, to make it
less risky and confusing for authors, artists, scholars, libraries, and
museums to use "orphan" copyrighted works in publications and in artworks.
These are works that are still in copyright but for which no copyright
holder can be found.

The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is now considering a
bill, H.R. 5439, the Orphan Works Act of 2006, to address this problem. In a
nutshell, if a user of an "orphan work," does a diligent search to locate
the copyright owner, and is unsuccessful, the risks of using that work are
greatly reduced.

Please write to the Committee and to your own Congressional Representative
to urge enactment of H.R. 5439 during this Congress. To send a customized
message, click on this URL:

http://capwiz.com/humanitiesadvocacy/utr/2/?a