700+ Orphan Works comments at the Copyright Office

Cory Doctorow 2:24 am Wed Mar 30, 2005

Gavin sez, "The U.S. Copyright Office has posted the orphan works comments that were submitted. Over 700 comments were submitted in total. The CO will be accepting comments in direct reply to these through May 9."

Lessig (for Save the Music and CC):
Internet Archive (Note: The Internet Archive's comment has some particularly interesting suggestions, including using orphan works under the Creative Commons by-nc-nd license.)
FreeCulture.org
Public Knowledge
Library of Congress
Microsoft
Copyright Clearance Center (copyright.com)
RIAA
Elizabeth Townsend (Academic Copyright)
MPAA
ASCAP
Samuelson Clinic
Consumers Electronic Association

Link
(Thanks, Gavin!)

Update: Joe sez, " LOC has posted all these orphan works comments in locked PDFs that don't allow copying and pasting of the text? Seems a little silly as the reply commentors will not be able to quote the comments easily… is the LOC going copyright-paranoid?"

Update 2: A different Joe sez, "all email comments submitted to the LoC's notice of inquiry on orphaned works weren't properly redacted. That is, they simply drew white boxes over sensitive information instead of leaving it out of the documents entirely."

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