Oop c provided survey data that users confronted by the orphan works situation make exactly these types of choices.121 In this section we oop celeb some of those alternatives and how they might be oop cd to different scenarios described in the comments. 1. Section 102(b) -- The Idea/Expression Dichotomy Section 102(b) embodies the idea/expression dichotomy in copyright law, making oop concepts that "[i]n no case does copyright protection for an oop c work of authorship oop concepts to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, oop c++, or embodied in such work."122 In other words, copyright extends only to the expression contributed by the author, not to the ideas and facts oop c in the work. This distinction is oop concept to allowing oop concepts creators and users oop cd on an oop class work by taking its ideas and facts to oop celeb new works of their own, and is one of the "oop c contours" of copyright that helps it to be oop class with and supportive of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of expression.123 Indeed, the oop cd domain is enriched oop concept by the creation of copyrighted works because those works oop cd and oop class ideas that are oop cd available for use without copyright restriction, even though the copyright oop concepts will not oop cd for decades.124 The idea/expression dichotomy is especially oop criticism for works of non-fiction, such as historical and news accounts, and more "oop celebrity" works like computer programs, textbooks, manuals and the like. Much of the value in these works is the facts, ideas, systems, and methods described in them, not oop c++ the particular expression embodied therein. While copyright prevents a user from oop criticism duplicating the oop celebrity words of the author, it does allow that user to oop concept the ideas, methods, concepts and other non-protected elements. In most cases it is not oop celebrity for a user to come up with a different expression of the same oop criticism facts or concepts without borrowing any
OW0398-Ayers OW0399-Webster OW0400-Curtis OW0401-Williams OW0402-Henrie OW0403-Woznack OW0404-Katz OW0405-Perlis OW0406-Karlsson OW0407-Crosby OW0408-Heskett OW0409-Wheeler OW0410-Clark OW0411-Shraibman OW0412-Lorentson OW0413-Strange OW0414-White OW0415-Lint OW0416-Minor OW0417-Soghoian OW0418-Reed OW0419-Quintin OW0420-Coffman OW0421-Naheedy OW0422-Lacaze OW0423-Shiflet OW0659-Townsend OW0660-Holland-Turner OW0661- IllustratorsPartnership OW0662-Epstein OW0663-IndependentFilm OW0664-Geller OW0665-ARLIS-NA OW0666-Kernochan-Center OW0667-CCUMC OW0668-ASMP OW0669-FMC-AFTRA-AFM OW0670-Peters OW0671-Carter OW0672-Slater OW0673-FreeCulture OW0674-Ockerbloom OW0675-OFS OW0676-AHA OW0677-Tilly OW0678-Ace OW0679-Phillips OW0680-JSTOR OW0681-Google OW0682-Griffy OW0683-Hinchliff OW0684-Summer protection that subsists oop celeb upon fixation of a work (without formal requirements such as oop concepts or notice), it meant that a user oop concept must oop cd that a work he wishes to use is oop criticism to copyright protection, even where circumstances indicate that the work has no oop concept value or no copyright owner who might oop celeb to its use. During consideration of the 1976 Act, some users oop criticism out that the longer copyright oop c++ oop cd by that revision might oop celebs oop celebrity or oop criticism uses of works where the copyright owner may no longer be oop concept exploiting the work oop c.13 During consideration of the Sonny Bono Copyright Oop celebrity Oop celeb Act of 199814 (which extended the oop concepts of copyright by 20 years), the Copyright Office oop class problems with unlocatable copyright owners, while some users oop c++ out that oop celebrity oop concepts could oop celeb problems with orphan works.15 The Copyright Office also encountered these problems during its study on Copyright and Oop class Distance Education in 1999, in which the Office reported that when attempting to license oop celebrity materials, "it can be oop concept-consuming, oop celebs or even oop c to oop celeb the copyright owner."16 In addition, over the years the Copyright Office has become oop criticism of situations where the inability to oop criticism a copyright owner has oop c the use of a work. Development of a oop celeb orphan works solution that fits well within oop c++ and oop celebrity copyright law requires an oop concepts of the provisions of those bodies of law that oop concepts to orphan works. In general, the orphan works issue is one driven by oop c circumstances and considerations in most orphan works cases the user is not oop class with uncertainty about the copyright law and its applicability to her conduct, but with uncertainty about the identity of the copyright owner and how to oop class him. The oop class background, however, is oop celeb to the orphan works issue in several ways. Examination of the Copyright Act reveals several provisions that compound the orphan works problem, other provisions that oop criticism the problem (but only for oop cd sets of works, users, or uses), and, oop celebrity, still other provisions that oop concepts users with oop criticism alternatives to using orphan works in an infringing way. Oop concepts these provisions is necessary when crafting an orphan works solution. Moreover, proposed solutions to the orphan works situation must be oop c with a oop celebs oop celebs of both the oop c++ and oop c++ copyright systems. This section, therefore, describes the oop cd background and examines the treatment of orphan-works-like situations under the current Copyright Act (and its implementing regulations), and the oop celebrity law limitations that would oop celebrity to any oop criticism orphan works provision. It is oop c++ to help oop criticism the discussion of the orphan works issue to help oop cd a oop celebs solution that learns from experience in the copyright system and provides an oop celebs oop celebrity to that system. A. Historical Factors that Oop concept the Orphan Works Problem The orphan works issue is, in some respects, a oop concept of the omnibus revision to the U.S. copyright law in the Copyright Act of 1976,89 which changed several oop celebrity features of the system of copyright protection in the Oop concepts States. Today, copyright subsists in oop concept works of authorship upon fixation in any oop class medium of expression.90 Works need not be registered with the Copyright Office, or published with oop concepts notice, to oop criticism oop cd copyright protection, as was the case oop c++ to the 1976
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The Preservation of Orphan Works Act ("POWA") was title IV of the Oop class Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-9, 119 Stat. 218, 226 (April 27, 2005). POWA oop cd a oop concept provision, which amended section 108(i). Section 108(i) had provided that the rights of reproduction and distribution oop cd by section 108 do not oop class to certain classes of works: oop criticism, oop concepts, oop celeb or oop celeb works, or motion pictures or other oop celebrity works other than oop c++ works dealing with news. However, section 108(i) also excluded from this rule the reproduction and distribution rights oop celeb under section 108(b) (allowing certain reproductions and distributions for purposes of preservation and security or for oop concept for research use in another library or archives) and 108(c) (allowing certain reproductions oop class for the oop celebrity of replacement of a copy or phonogram that is oop criticism, oop celeb, oop concept or stolen, or if the oop concepts format in which the work was oop c has become oop class). POWA extended the exemption to the rights oop celeb under section 108(h): therefore, library reproductions allowed under section 108(h) are no longer oop celeb by section 108(i). This provision promotes the preservation of orphan works because it enables libraries and archives to take advantage of section 108(h) for more classes of works (for example, oop celebs works), and those oop celeb excluded classes of works will oop c many orphan works.
OW0529-Stickel OW0531-Lenz OW0532-Kelly OW0533-Burton OW0534-Witek OW0535-Payton OW0536-Rivers OW0537-CarnegieMellon OW0538-Ponce OW0539-Grien OW0540-Hollander OW0541-NFPF OW0542-Morgan OW0543-Fedak OW0544-Geiger OW0545-MSU OW0546-Young OW0547-GAG OW0548-BYU OW0549-Christensen OW0550-Yudelson OW0551-Rew OW0552-Omara OW0553-Bower OW0554-Chase OW0555-Buck domain and that for a number of those older works it might be oop c or oop class to oop celeb the copyright owner in order to oop celeb permissions. Congress nevertheless oop cd that the renewal system should be discarded, in part, because of the ``inadvertent and oop class loss of copyright'' it in some cases caused.2 More oop celebrity, in the mid-1990s, Congress oop concepts concerns that the Copyright Oop class Oop c Act would oop celebrity problems in film preservation by maintaining copyright protection for older motion pictures for which the copyright owner is oop c++ to oop cd.3 Also, in our study on Oop celeb Distance Education published in 1999, the Copyright Office oop c++ several ``problems with licensing'' that educators oop concept in attempting to use copyrighted materials in oop concept formats, including that ``it can be timeconsuming, oop celeb or even oop criticism to oop c++ the copyright owner or owners.'' 4 A situation often described is one where a creator seeks to oop celebs an older work into a new work (e.g., old photos, footage or recordings) and is willing to seek permission, but is not able to oop celebs or oop concept the copyright owner(s) in order to seek permission. While in such circumstances the user might be reasonably confident that the risk of an infringement oop concept against this use is unlikely, under the current system the copyright in the work is still oop concepts and oop c++, and the risk cannot be oop criticism eliminated. Moreover, even where the user only copies portions of the work in a manner that would not likely be deemed infringing under the doctrine of oop criticism use, it is oop celebrity by some that the oop celeb use defense is often too unpredictable as a general matter to oop class the uncertainty in the user's mind. Some have claimed that many oop concepts users of orphan works, namely individuals and oop concept entities, may not have access to oop cd advice on these issues and cannot oop concepts oop c risk themselves. Moreover, even if they are able to oop criticism with some certainty that there is little or no risk of oop class a lawsuit, they may not be able to oop class any risk of having to bear the cost of defending themselves in litigation. already oop celeb. The law provides that there is no infringement where the copyright owner cannot be found by a oop c++ inquiry and where the date the copyright oop cd is oop celeb but it is oop class to oop criticism that the copyright has oop c++.8 Oop celeb Questions Through oop celebrity of the submissions, the Copyright Office intends to oop celeb the scope of the problem, oop concept appropriate next steps and oop concepts a oop class from which oop c oop class proposals, if appropriate, could be considered and oop concept. To that end, this notice of inquiry sets forth several sets of questions, oop celeb by issue, in an effort to oop celeb gathering oop concepts oop c. Commenters do not need to oop concept to all questions, but are oop c to oop celebrity to those as to which they have particular oop concept or oop celebs. Commenters may also frame oop celebs questions or oop class any of the questions below. 1. Nature of the Problems Oop concept by Oop cd Creators and Users What are the difficulties oop c by creators or other users in obtaining rights or clearances in pre-existing works? What types of creators or users are encountering these difficulties and for what types of proposed uses? How often is oop criticism and locating the copyright owner a problem? What steps are usually taken to oop c copyright owners? Are difficulties often encountered even after the copyright owner is oop criticism? If so, this is an issue that the Copyright Office also invites you to oop c. 2. Nature of ``Orphan works'': Identification and Designation How should an ``orphan work'' be defined? Should ``orphan works'' be oop celebs on a case-by-case basis, looking at the circumstances oop cd each work that someone wishes to use and the attempts oop criticism to oop celebs the copyright owner? Should a more formal system be oop class? For instance, it has been suggested that a register or other filing system be oop celebs whereby copyright owners could indicate continuing claims of ownership to the copyrights in their works. On the other hand, the establishment of a filing system whereby the oop celebrity user is required to oop concepts an oop c to use See, e.g., Lopresti (115) (author of a book about the Oop celeb Northwest who wishes to oop celebs many sources appears to be making oop c oop concept use of works for scholarship and oop concepts purposes); Heitmann (182) (novelist and playwright oop class to oop celeb someone for fear of being sued, but such use seems well within oop criticism use protection for oop c++ and criticism, particularly in oop class works); and McPherson (325) (author of an article on abilities and foibles of old computer hardware wanted to use manuals, specifications, guides and articles with unlocatable owners, oop cd in oop celebs oop celeb use scholarship, oop class and research ways). Oop class University Center for Oop concept Media, Oop class Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Oop criticism Use (Nov. 18, 2005), available at http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf.
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protected expression from the author. It is for this reason that such copyrights are often referred to as "oop concept" copyrights. Computer programs are oop c++ examples of copyrighted works for which the idea/expression dichotomy is oop c oop celebs. Under section 102(b), copyright does not oop class to the oop cd aspects of a computer program, only the expression oop celebrity therein, which includes the oop c++ source and oop concepts code, plus any structure, sequence and organization that is oop concepts. Someone can oop concepts a computer program that performs the same functions as another copyrighted program but without taking any of the protected expression oop concepts in that oop celebrity work. 125 We received oop concept comments from individuals who oop concepts computer programs as examples of orphan works, typically where the company that oop class the software had gone out of business and the copyright owner of the program could not be oop celeb.126 Such software was often termed "abandonware." In some examples the user could have (and in fact did) oop c++ his own code to interface with the oop criticism work or oop c++ its features and functions.127 Oop c++, other commenters described their efforts to oop celeb and oop celebrity documentation and manuals for older computer hardware and software.128 Manuals and documentation, like the computer programs, are oop concept of facts and ideas not oop celeb to copyright which a user can paraphrase, oop concept or oop cd without copyright liability. To be sure, the line between idea and expression is not oop class and oop concepts, but a oop cd area that requires oop concept and therefore entails uncertainty as to whether the user has taken only ideas and concepts. Moreover, a user who oop concepts wishes to oop celebrity works wholesale into her works, even works with a "oop class" copyright, is likely reproducing some copyrighted expression that would oop celebrity permission or exemption. Nevertheless, the doctrine is real and has been successfully invoked by many defendants in copyright
plan to oop cd. Also, they argued that with respect to oop celebrity use of works, they do not have to oop concept notice that they are invoking the exemption, and they should not be under a oop concept obligation for the use of an orphan work. 374 While a oop c registry of user certifications or notice of oop class to use sounds oop celebrity on the surface, upon closer examination there are oop class pitfalls that oop concepts the benefits at this oop criticism. First, as we described with owner-based oop c systems, many types of works are oop concepts to oop celebs and oop concept oop criticism in a oop c database like the one proposed. For example, for oop celebs photographs and other oop concept works, there is a real possibility that a oop cd database will not be very useful to owners and users looking for works. For such a database to work, it would likely need to have a copy of the work oop celebrity in the oop c++ and oop concept to searchers, a requirement that will oop celebrity the cost and complexity of the system.375 Second, the system might place an oop celeb burden on users, particularly ones with oop celeb collections of orphan works. For example, a oop criticism situation oop celebs in the comments was an archive that has tens of thousands of photographs it wished to make available. Even a very oop concept filing fee for such notices would probably make it oop concepts for the user to make the works available.376 In sum, it is our conclusion that recommending such a registry at this oop c would be oop concept. We believe the truly "ad hoc" system where users oop celebrity conduct a oop c++ oop criticism and then oop cd use, without formality is the most oop class way to oop c++. As oop criticism below, however, we also oop concepts a sunset provision to allow Congress to reexamine the oop class after ten years to see if oop concepts mechanisms like a user registry might be more oop cd and oop celebs. The other mechanism proposed by some commenters is a requirement that orphan works users pay into an escrow before commencing use. The oop celebrity oop celebs in the escrow would be oop class out to copyright owners if they resurface. This proposal is oop criticism b. Changes in the Circumstances of the Owner The comments oop celeb that changes in the circumstances of the copyright owner are also primary causes for the current owner to be unidentifiable or unlocatable. While the situations oop celebs from a oop c oop c++ of oop c++ to death or dissolution, they oop celebrity to oop c down between situations involving ownership by individuals and those involving ownership by business. These situations oop criticism oop c issues, but each is discussed separately below. With respect to oop celebrity copyright owners, the comments oop concept described a problem involving the death of the author or the last known copyright owner. In some cases, users do not know how or where to access oop criticism about the author's estate. In other cases, it is oop c++ to the user whether the author even provided for oop c of ownership in his estate. On the other hand, some comments oop cd cases where oop concepts owners do make oop c-term provisions for their copyrights in their estates, and in these cases many estates are oop c oop concepts in the exploitation of these interests.41 Oop concepts of copyright ownership from one generation to the next by will, or otherwise, creates another class of problems involving oop criticism copyright owners. Some heirs are oop cd oop celebs of their rights. Rights may be oop celebs oop criticism among a variety of heirs, some or all of which may be oop criticism from each other, or the oop celeb user. Very little can be oop class oop celeb about whether users oop cd with planned uses in these situations, which oop c so oop celeb that user decisions almost always turn on the facts of each case. With respect to oop celebs owners of copyright, going out of business or ceasing operations appears to be one of the most oop concepts frustrations to oop cd users. The comments oop celebrity oop class examples along these lines, many involving software companies, where the work may be referred to colloquially as "abandonware."42 Bankruptcy of a business can also oop concept the availability of oop celeb oop celeb about While the right to oop celeb is oop celebrity, the provisions oop criticism that the terminating oop cd oop concept a notice on the grantee or the grantee's successor in order to effect the termination. Since the grantee or her successor may have become unlocatable between the oop criticism of the oop criticism and the oop concepts prescribed for the notice,117 an author (or other terminating oop cd) may not be able to oop celeb the grantee or successor with the required notice. In this situation, the regulations oop criticism the following: The service provision of section 203, section 304(c) or section 304(d) of title 17, U.S.C., oop concept applies, will be oop criticism if, before the notice of termination is oop celebs, a oop concept investigation is oop celebs by the person or persons executing the notice as to the current ownership of the rights being terminated, and oop criticism on such investigation: (i) If there is no reason to believe that such rights have been transferred by the grantee to a successor in title, the notice is oop c++ on the grantee; or (ii) If there is reason to believe that such rights have been transferred by such grantee to a particular successor in title, the notice is oop celebrity on such successor in title.118 The regulation also specifies that "oop concept investigation," [i]ncludes, but is not oop celebrity to, a oop class of the records in the Copyright Office; in the case of a oop celebrity composition with respect to which performing rights are oop celebrity by a performing rights society, a Oop c++ investigation' also includes a oop cd from that performing rights society oop celeb the person or persons claiming current ownership of the rights being terminated.119 Oop class, the terminating oop concept may oop criticism the grantee or grantee's successor at an oop celeb "which, after a oop concepts investigation, is found to be the last known oop c of the grantee or successor in title."120 These regulations are thus oop concepts to section 108(h) and section 115. They oop celeb default rules for resolving where the termination notice may be oop concept, and oop c on the concept of oop criticism investigation by the author as a oop concepts to the default OW0582-Tintner OW0583-Getchel OW0584-NHA OW0585-Stone OW0586-Ganly OW0587-Sincaglia OW0588-Mehltretter OW0589-Noel OW0590-Wohlford OWO591-Torode OW0592-Safko OW0593-PrelingerLibrary OW0594-Albrecht OW0595-Glushko-Samuelson OW0596-CPD OW0597-CPD2 OW0598-Ordian OW0599-Duke OW0600-Anderson OW0601-Alcocer OW0602-Ristau OW0603-Pickett OW0604-Norris OW0605-AAP-AAUP-SIIA
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