I am forwarding this message on behalf of my colleague, Peter Hirtle. Margaret
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> Date: Mon Oct 12 03:39:50 EDT 2009
> From: "Peter Hirtle" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Press Release re Orphan Works Best Practices
>
> ARLIS/NA list subscribers may be interested in the following press release:
>
> CHICAGOThe Society of American Archivists (SAA)
> has issued Orphan Works: Statement of Best
> Practices, a 16-page report that provides what
> professional archivists consider the best methods
> to use when attempting to identify and locate
> copyright holders. The statement, which primarily
> focuses on unpublished materials because they are
> usually found in archives, is available on the
> associations website as a PDF at http://www.archivists.org/standards/.
>
> Orphan works is a term used to
> describe the situation in which 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. Eight archivists and a
> recognized legal expert in intellectual property
> and copyright law developed the statement, based
> upon their experiences researching copyright status.
>
> We created this statement to provide
> archivists with a framework to discover what
> materials they hold are truly orphaned works, and
> in the hopes of empowering them to provide wider
> access and use of those materials as a result,
> said Heather Briston, chair of SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group.
>
> The primary authors of the statement
> include Briston (University of Oregon), Mark
> Allen Greene (University of Wyoming), Cathy
> Henderson (University of Texas, Austin), Peter
> Hirtle (Cornell University), Peter Jaszi
> (American University) , William Maher (University
> of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aprille Cooke
> McKay (University of Michigan), Richard
> Pearce-Moses (Arizona State Library), and
> Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC). Financial and
> administrative support was provided for this
> project by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership.
>
> More information on SAAs Intellectual
> Property Working Group can be found at:
> http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ipwg/.
>
>
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