From: "Hansen, Dave" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:16:29 +0000 On Monday Copyright Office published a notice of inquiry and request for participation in a roundtable on orphan works and mass digitization. You can read the full request here: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2014/79fr7706.pdf "The U.S. Copyright Office will host public roundtable discussions and seeks further comments on potential legislative solutions for orphan works and mass digitization under U.S. copyright law. The meetings and comments will provide an opportunity for interested parties to address new legal developments as well as issues raised by comments provided in response to the Office's previous Notice of Inquiry." Among the topics of discussion are the need for legislation in light of recent legal and technological developments (namely, fair use caselaw and the development of more advanced electronic registries), and the potential role of extended collective licensing (ECL) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_collective_licensing ). I know several people on this list have been involved with the effort to develop best practices under fair use for the digital preservation and access of library and archive collections that contain a significant or unknown number of orphan works, so this might be of particular interest to you. This is the report that describes that project: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/related-materials/documents/report-orphan-works-challenges-libraries-archives-and-other-mem ---------- David R. Hansen Reference Librarian, UNC School of Law Digital Library Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Law [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]