2009/3/30 Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com:
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
No we should not. The whole orphan works thing has the potential to be rather damaging since it allows copyrights to effectively stripped from the general population while keeping big business copyrights intact.