On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
What we should lobby for is more sensible laws about orphan works. Museums would be great allies in this. Until now, they don't care much, because they don't get sued. Perhaps we can make them care a little more.
Libraries would in theory make greate allies in this, too. However, they seem to prefer some "temporaray orphanage" situation which can be reversed. I would prefer permanent solutions, even if they raise the treshold on when and how a creative work becomes officially declared orphan. And yes, we should lobby on this topic.
Mathias