Court upholds copyright law on ‘orphan works’
From the article:
U.S. appeals court has rejected a bid by Internet activists to roll back federal laws that extended copyright protection over orphan works, or books and other media that are no longer in print.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower-court decision to dismiss Kahle v. Gonzales, which argued that legal changes made in the 1990s had vastly extended copyright protections at the expense of free-speech rights.
Live Search BooksOrphaned works are a hot-button issue for the publishing industry, which has resisted efforts by Web companies Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and the Internet Archive–working with major academic libraries–to scan orphaned and out-of-copyright works to make them available for free on the Web.
Source: Reuters
See Also: Full Text of Court Opinion (via 9th Circuit Court of Appeals)
See Also: Comments and More Documents from Brewster Kahle from The Internet Archive 1 ||| 2
Source: Reuters
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