[Ecommerce] WCL: Orphan Works: New Prospects for a Solution (2/24)

[Manon Ress]

Friday, February 24, 2006
2:00 pm =96 4:00pm
Reception to Follow

Registration: (Click Here) http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/
cle_form.cfm
or call 202-274-4148
(Note: Registration is appreciated, but not required.  Walk-In guests
are welcome.)

Location
Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.  ~ Room 602
Washington, DC 20016

On Friday afternoon, February 24, From 2:00 to 4:00 PM, the Program
on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest at the Washington
College of Law will present a timely program on "Orphan Works:  New
Prospects for a Solution."

The last few years have seen an increasingly recognition that the
problem of "orphan works" is a real impediment to the realization of
the constitutional goal of copyright law:  the "Progress of Science
and useful Arts."  When artists, historians, museums, libraries and
others forgo culturally significant uses of copyright works because
their ownership cannot be traced, the public loses.  On January 23,
after a thorough and searching review, the United States Copyright
Office delivered an important report on this topic (with legislative
recommendations) to the chairs of the relevant congressional committees.
The panel discussion on February 24 will consider the report, its
recommendations and the potential for early legislation.  Joining in
the discussion will be representatives of many groups that have been
active in the "orphan works" debate, including:  Prue Adler
(Association of Research Libraries),  Jonathan Band (counsel to the
Library Copyright Alliance), Kathleen Franz (American University
History Dept.), Robert Kasunic (Copyright Office), Jay Rosenthal
(counsel to the Recording Artists Coalition), Jason Schultz
(Electronic Frontier Foundation), Eric Schwartz (Smith & Metalitz),
Rebecca Tushnet (Georgetown Law Center), Jennifer Urban (USC Law
School, who filed comments for documentary filmmakers), and a
representative of the Recording Industry Association of America --
among others.

This will be an important opportunity to explore this critical
dimension of copyright's future.

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Manon Anne Ress
manon.ress@cptech.org,
www.cptech.org

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