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- Title: Orphan Works (Copyright)
- Author : Art Monthly
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 45 KB
Description
'Orphan works' are copyright works that have no identifiable or traceable owner under international and national copyright laws, and are therefore allowed to be freely copied and merchandised. These sensible arrangements were developed through international copyright treaties and conventions signed over the past 100 years or so, whereby governments of most of the world's nation states agreed to enact them into their respective national copyright legislations--including the legal right of artists of all other signatory states to enforce their copyrights in those foreign countries. The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (Berne), signed in 1886 by the then leading industrial countries, was one of the first to aim for international consistency of approach and reciprocal enforcement. Berne has now been signed and implemented by all but a handful of countries throughout the world. But the US now appears to be putting at risk international consistency of approach and reciprocal enforcement. Orphan works legislation is currently being considered by the US Congress, which could substantially damage the copyrights of both US and non-US artists whose works were to be copied and merchandised in the US--if this Orphan Works Act/Bill were to become federal law. The usual arrangements for dealing with orphaned works under Berne are straightforward: if a copyright work is anonymous or pseudonymous, or the author cannot be found by reasonable enquiry, it is reasonable to assume that the author died more than 70 years earlier, and so any copying of the work is permitted by law. (Copyright normally lasts for the author's lifetime plus 70 years after the year of the author's death.) In other words, the responsibility is placed on any prospective user of a copyright work to prove that they have undertaken duly diligent enquiries to trace the copyright owner in order to have reasonably concluded that the author died 70 or more years earlier. Such research must be undertaken before embarking on their copying or merchandising venture.
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