Dear Friends – Jeff Cunard, CAA Counsel, has suggested how to make your letter regarding Orphan Works even more effective than Prue Adler’s very general, though to-the-point letter.  Here’s what he recommends: “…some appropriate points for these letters: how OW are used by the writer, why what the writer does contributes to scholarship, creativity, etc., what the problems are with using OWs, how the legislation is helpful/solves the problems (or at least meaningfully addresses the problem), that the Member of Congress should resist attempts to water it down, or render it useless, and that the Member should support the bill and act rapidly to support its enactment.”

If anybody needs more background on Orphan Works, you may check out my website – http://www.uoregon.edu/~csundt/copyweb/  I have devoted a new section to the happenings associated with Orphan Works with documents, transcripts, and audio files from various hearing that led up to the current action. 

 

Thanks, again, for your help.