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ORPHAN WORKS RESOURCE PAGE FOR ARTISTS

by Illustrators' Partnership of America

For new posts on Orphan Works, and an archive of the articles below please visit
The IPA Orphan Works Blog:

http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com/


TAKE ACTION: DON’T LET CONGRESS ORPHAN YOUR WORK
http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/

Special link for our international friend and colleagues:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00267

For comprehensive bill descriptions that describe the impact on visual artists:
House Bill http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/bills/?billid=11320236

Senate Bill http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/issues/bills/?billid=11322171

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READ:
IPA Press Releases:

08.13.08 Orphan Works SBA Roundtable Webcast Link
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00294

08.04.08 More About SBA Orphan Works Roundtable & Webcast
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00293

08.02.08 Orphan Works Roundtable & Webcast
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00292

07.30.08 Senate Bill on Hold
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00291

07.30.08 Orphan Works Bill Hotlined
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00290

07.23.08 More Groups Condemn Orphan Works Legislation
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00289

07.15.08 Orphan Works Update
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00287

07.13.08 Orphan Works Markup
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00286

07.01.08 Orphan Works Opposition Party
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00285

07.02.08 International Confederation Condemns U.S. Orphan Works Act
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00282

06.21.08 An Orphan Works Solution
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00281

06.17.08 Million People Against the Orphan Works Bill
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00280

06.17.08 Nashville Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Controversial ‘Orphan Works’
Legislation”

http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00279

06.14.08 Orphan Works Opposition
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00278

06.13.08 Orphan Works Flip-Flop
Textile trade associations announce support for Orphan Works bill three months after testimony warning of their industry’s demise in exchange for exemption from bills
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00277

06.10.08 Visual Artists Go to Washington, Independent Record Labels Oppose Orphan Works Act
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00276

06.03.08 The Orphan Works Act: Warning to the Public
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00275

06.02.08 Orphan Works Update
Urging Congress to pass the House bill makes very little sense to us unless your business or organization expects to become a commercial registry.
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00274

05.12.08 Some Backers of the Controversial Orphan Works Bill say They’re Launching a Campaign to “Rescue Orphan Works”
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00272

05.09.08 Backers of the Orphan Works bill are Circulating Their Talking Points:
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00271

05.08.08 Orphan Works Update May 8, 2008
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00270

05.07.08 Take Action: Don’t Let Congress Orphan Our Work
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00269

05.01.08 Open Forum on Orphan Works
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00268

04.30.08 IPA Senate Mark-up Comments April 30, 2008 http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/ow_docs

04.25.08 Orphan Works Bills Released in House and Senate
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00266

04.22.08 New Orphan Works Act Due Out This Week
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00265

04.16.08 Orphan Works – No Myth
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00264

04.02.08 How Registries Will Orphan Your Work
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00263

03.26.08The Orphan Works Landscape
Some groups ready to concede defeat in return for concessions for their groups
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00262

03.20.08 Written Statement of Brad Holland and Cynthia Turner on Behalf of the Illustrators’ Partnership of America to The Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00261

03.19.08 Orphan Works Update
Advocates hope for swift passage before the summer recess
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00260

03.14.08 “Promoting” Orphan Works
Consequences of radical copyright reform
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00259

02.26.08 It’s Back!
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00258

01.29.07 Orphan Works Meeting
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00247

01.23.07 Orphan Works Revisited
Imagery Alliance forms to respond to reintroduction of Orphan Works legislation
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00246

09.27.06 Good News, Bad News
Copyright Modernization Act pulled from this Congress, Smith vows to pass it next session
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00244

09.20.06 Manager’s Amendment
Amendment to Copyright Modernization Act requires the Copyright Office to create a text-searchable database of visual works
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00243

09.18.06 Sugar Coating the Orphan Works Act
It’s transparently irresponsible to legalize the abuse of private property on the premise that you might create some undefined “remedies” to handle the abuse.
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00240

09.14.06 Mark-up Postponed
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00239

09.12.06 Orphan Works Goes Ballistic
Smith introduces The Copyright Modernization Act of 2006
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00238

07.27.06 Orphan Works Update
Because of the concerns raised by the textile industry, the bill may not come out of the House Judiciary Committee before Congress recesses for the summer
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00237

07. 21.06 Blue Girl revisited
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00236

07.19.06 Unwilling Orphan
The story of Michiko Stehrenberger and her “Blue Girl” art
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00235

07.18.06 Orphan Works Update
“Sponsors are likely to plow ahead full steam”
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00234

07.14.06 Orphan Works Advocates
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00233

07.13.06 Key Congressional Districts
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00232

07.06.06 Tech Law Journal Analysis of Orphan Works Act of 2006
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00230

06.29.06 Time to Act
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00229

06.06.06 Technology is Not the Solution
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00222

06.05.06 Frequently Asked Questions About Orphan Works
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00221

05.31.06 Berman Statement on Orphan Works
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00220

05.30.06 Derivative Abuse
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00219

05.24.06 Infringer’s Bill of Rights
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00218

05.24.06 Assault on Copyright
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00217

05.22.06 Bill Text – “The Orphan Works Act of 2006”
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00214

05.22.06 Orphan Works Bill Released in House
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00213

04.15.06 Senate Hearing on Orphan Works Update: Thank you to all artists, and to Senator Patrick Leahy
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00206

04.06.06 Statement of Brad Holland: Senate Hearing on “Orphan Works: Proposals for a Legislative Solution”
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00203

03.29.06 Statement of Brad Holland: House Oversight Hearing on “Remedies for Small Copyright Claims”
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00202

03.29.06 Webcast: House Oversight Hearing on “Remedies for Small Copyright Claims”
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00201

03.22.06 IPA Written Testimony, House Judiciary Subcommittee, March 14, 2006
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00200

03.21.06 Not an Orphan Works Amendment.
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00199

03.20.06 “Consumer Group” Seeks to Fix Prices on ‘Orphan Works’
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00198

03.16.06 The TRIPs Three-Step Test: Limitations and Exceptions to Exclusive Rights
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00197

03.15.06 Orphan Works: Conflict with Berne?
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00196

03.14.06 International Orphan Works
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00195

03.10.06 Audio & Testimony Transcripts of House Subcommittee Hearing
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00193

03.08.06 Webcast: Oversight Hearing - “The Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works”
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property
http://boss.streamos.com/real/hjudiciary/courts/courts03082006.smi

03.08.06 Google Sees Value in Orphan Works
Orphan Works worthwhile, useful, extremely valuable http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00173

03.07.06 AP PRESS RELEASE: Amendment May Orphan Creative Artists
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00186

03.07.06 “No Reasonable Willing Seller”
Public Knowledge opposes paying even a reasonable royalty to infringed rightsholder http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00183

03.06.06 Publishers Side With Copyright Office on Orphan Works
Publishers anticipate OW provision as further justification for all rights contracts
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00184

03.04.06 1976 Copyright Act Considered and Rejected Orphan Works Legislation
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00172

03.02.06 No Time to Go Wobbly
Copyright Small Claims Courts for “orphan” infringements not viable
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00182

02.26.06 Orphan Works Express
Helpful points for letter writing
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00171

02.26.06 Webcast: Orphan Works Debate at Washington College of Law
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00180

02.24.06 Call for Action: Prevent Orphan Works Amendment to U.S. Copyright Law
Contains Draft letter and Lawmaker contact info
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00179

02.20.06 Proposed U.S. Legislation Could Orphan Copyrights
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00178

08.15.05 The Copy Left is Not Right
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00152

03.09.05 Invitation: Sign IPA Submission to Copyright Office Orphan Work Study
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00191

03.08.05 Demanding Free Culture
“Free software! Free culture! Demand it now!” Lawrence Lessig’s social movement denies individual original authorship
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00188

02.13.05 Copyright Office Announces Orphan Work Study
Federal Register announcement 70 FR 3739
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00187

02.10.05 Orphaned Art and a Copyright Virus
Creative Commons “ remixers’” licenses embedded into “orphaned” artwork of original creators will function as copyright virus
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00190

02.09.05 Alternative Copyright Gains Ground in Europe
Creative Commons gives artists greater “freedom” to give away their work
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00189

02.22.04 “The Tyranny of Copyright?”
The New York Times Magazine published a letter from the Illustrators' Partnership (IPA) and the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) written in response to “The Tyranny of Copyright?” by Robert S. Boynton, published January 25, 2004
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00194

04.15.02 Mothra vs Rodan: The New Copyright Wars
The movement to abolish copyright
http://www.illustratorspartnership.org/01_topics/article.php?searchterm=00100
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IPA FILINGS ON U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE ORPHAN WORK STUDY

3.24.05 IPA Comment
Joined by 42 Arts Organizations in the U.S. and internationally, and over 2,000 artists
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0660-Holland-Turner.pdf

03.21.05 IPA Recommendations
Establish an artist’s registry, reform work-for-hire, grant a limited, specific antitrust exemption to visual authors, permit registry to evolve into a visual authors’ collective rights administration
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0661-IllustratorsPartnership.pdf

05.09.05 IPA Reply Comment
IPA responds to Comments by Creative Commons, Glushko-Samuelson Copyright Clearance Initiative, and Copyright Clearance Center
http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/reply/OWR0139-IPA.pdf

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