From: Peter Suber <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:29:16 -0400

Dave Hansen is right. We pulled the Google doc version of our Orphan
Works List (OWL) while we continue to think through the project. The
list was unstarted or empty, and you're not missing anything. In
addition, as he also mentioned, we moved the OWL page, still empty,
from Google docs to our own site.

https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/programs/orphan-works/owl/

You can follow new phases of our Orphan Works Project on the project home page:

https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/programs/orphan-works/

Finally, let me reiterate that Dave's report remains open access from
the Harvard repository. Thanks to Iris Brest for making this point
herself when she pointed out that the OWL had flown.

https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27840430

Peter

Peter Suber
bit.ly/petersuber




On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 9:02 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: "Hansen, Dave" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:33:34 +0000
>
> Sorry about that! I think the folks at Harvard Office for Scholarly
> Communications are now working on moving that page to their own site.
> Right now (as it was before on the Google Doc) there are no suspected
> orphan works on the list, so you're not missing much. It was really
> just to illustrate the idea of the list, which is to have a space
> online to report relevant information about works that are suspected
> to be orphaned.  After a suspected orphan works is on the list for a
> certain period of time -- long enough, hopefully, for potential
> rightsholders to take notice and come forward-- the library would
> start to take steps to make the work available.
>
> This "waiting list" idea is talked about in some more detail in the
> "Conclusion and Practical Application" section of the report, starting
> on p. 94
>
> -Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iris Brest <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:06:30 +0000
>
> The report downloads readily, but when I try to follow the link
> http://bit.ly/ProjectOWL, I get this:
>
> GOOGLE DRIVE -- YOU NEED PERMISSION
>
> Is that what was intended?
>
> Iris Brest
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Hansen, Dave" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:47:21 +0000
>
> I thought some people on this list might be interested in this report
> that I worked on with the Harvard Library Office for Scholarly
> Communication on legal strategies for orphan works. Note too the
> announcement about the Harvard Orphan Works List project, which builds
> off of some ideas in the report.
>
> Orphan Works to Open Access: Harvard Library publishes report on
> digitizing orphan collections
>
>
> *******
>
> AUGUST 12, 2016
>
> The Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication (OSC) is
> pleased to announce the release of a comprehensive literature review
> on strategies for digitizing orphan works for open access.
>
> An orphan work is any original work of authorship for which a good
> faith, prospective user cannot readily identify and/or locate the
> copyright owner—especially in situations, like digitization projects,
> where permission from the copyright owner is legally necessary. Orphan
> works can be books, photographs, movies, music, or any other
> copyrighted media.
>
> The Orphan Works Project is an attempt to solve the legal complexities
> of the orphan works problem by identifying no-risk or low-risk ways to
> digitize and distribute orphan works under U.S. copyright law. The
> project’s goal is to help clear the way for U.S. universities,
> libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions to
> digitize their orphan works and make the digital copies open access.
>
> In the spring of 2015, the OSC commissioned research from David
> Hansen, Clinical Assistant Professor and Faculty Research Librarian at
> University of North Carolina School of Law. David is no stranger to
> the orphan works problem; he was one of primary facilitators for a
> project to create the Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of
> Collections Containing Orphan Works for Libraries, Archives, and Other
> Memory Institutions, released in December 2014.
>
> David completed the report, titled Digitizing Orphan Works: Legal
> Strategies to Reduce Risks for Open Access to Copyrighted Orphan
> Works, in the spring of 2016. A panel of experts then read the draft
> and commented on its significance, as well as its strengths and
> weaknesses in methodology and presentation. These expert comments
> ultimately helped improve the final edition.
>
> Based in part on this report, Harvard Library is launching an
> initiative to free orphan works in its collections by building a
> carefully curated online list called the Orphan Works List (OWL). You
> can see the first stages of the OWL project here:
>
> http://bit.ly/ProjectOWL
>
> We are excited by the possibility that this report and OWL could
> change the face of the orphan-works problem in the United States. This
> research was made possible by a grant to the Harvard Library from the
> Arcadia Fund. We thank both the Arcadia Fund and the Harvard Library
> for their support.
>
>
> TEXT OF THE REPORT
>
> https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/27840430
>
>
> David R. Hansen
> Clinical Assistant Professor & Faculty Research Librarian UNC School
> of Law [log in to unmask]
> 919.962.1605 (o)