Important considerations for protecting ICIP under the proposed orphan works scheme.
https://www.terrijanke.com.au/post/orphan-works-living-cultures-what-the-copyright-amendment-bill-means-for-icip
#ICIP #OrphanWorks #Copyright #CopyrightReform

Sunday Morning Mystery, 1971
I need help placing these 2, they're on the same street with a trolley wire overhead, possibly in the upper Haight somewhere. I just can't find them. Can you? #sfhistory #unknownlocation #orphanworks

How to stop video games being made unplayable once support ends

The Pirate Party has long played an important role in fighting the worst excesses of copyright in the EU. For example, when a major copyright update was being discussed, the Pirate Party MEP Felix Reda wrote an insightful and practical report on what needed changing. Most of his recommendations were ignored in the final EU Copyright Directive, but at least someone […]

#copyrightDirective #ebooks #europeanCommission #felixReda #mep #Music #orphanWorks #pirateParty #publicDomain #rossScott #support #videoGames #videos #youtube

https://walledculture.org/how-to-stop-video-games-being-made-unplayable-once-support-ends/

The Government will introduce copyright reform to ensure the use of copyright material is possible for online teaching, treating all students equally, regardless of whether they are being taught online or in a physical classroom.

Further consultation will also be done on the issue of orphan works.
https://bit.ly/4avMUCC
#Copyright #Education #RemoteLearning #OrphanWorks

Forgotten books and how to save them - https://walledculture.org/forgotten-books-and-how-to-save-them/ #copyright #orphanworks

Forgotten books and how to save them

On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains:

I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just […]

#books #criticalApparatus #ebooks #orphanWorks #outOfPrint #publicDomain #reissues #statuteOfAnne #wills

https://walledculture.org/forgotten-books-and-how-to-save-them/

Found Photos
No story or any locations (though I know some of them) just a few of the orphaned slides I've come across over the years. #orphanworks #kodachrome #found #people #unknown

Orphan materials are so important but can be tricky to use (from a copyright perspective). The Australian Libraries and Archives Copyright Coalition looks at some of those culture treasures.
https://alacc.org.au/case-study-state-library-of-south-australia/
#OrphanWorks #Copyright #LawReform

Conservatory of Flowers, Fall 1958
Generally I avoid standard tourist shots, but sometimes these old Kodachromes just work right. #sfhistory #sanfrancisco #kodachrome #orphanworks

(I can't read the flowerbed plaque, is there a record of what was planted over the years?)

Ten Years Later, The EU #OrphanWorks Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-officially-a-failure-just-as-the-copyright-industry-intended/ further proof that #copyright is broken and that governments have no intention of fixing it...

Ten Years Later, The EU Orphan Works Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The Copyright Industry Intended https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-officially-a-failure-just-as-the-copyright-industry-intended/ #copyright #orphanworks

Ten Years Later, The EU #OrphanWorks Directive Is Officially A Failure – Just As The #Copyright Industry Intended - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/16/ten-years-later-the-eu-orphan-works-directive-is-officially-a-failure-just-as-the-copyright-industry-intended/ one step forward, two steps back...

🧵/1 #Copyright is like a bully on the playground, @glynmoody observed, reflecting on the many locked-up #OrphanWorks, during his #BookTalk co-hosted by the @internetarchive & @Auths_Alliance

👀 Watch: https://archive.org/details/book-talk-walled-culture
📕 Read: https://walledculture.org/the-book #FreeEbook

Report on the application of the "#OrphanWorks Directive" 2012/28/EU - https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXVII/EU/12/36/EU_123655/imfname_11200921.pdf tl;dr - it's a total failure, just as we warned it would be, just as the industry wanted it to be... #copyright

Il problema delle #OpereOrfane condanna la #cultura del XX secolo al dimenticatoio.

Per fortuna però c'è una direttiva (del 2012) che ci aiuta, vero? Peccato che @_MiBAC@twitter.com non applica la legge sul diritto d'autore.

Risultato: Italia 0 opere disponibili, Lituania 112.

Creative works 🎼whose author or right holder is unknown or untraceable are still protected by #copyright. Learn about #orphanworks and ho…
https://twitter.com/EU_IPO/status/1047103886937460737

Happy Public Domain day! Here are the works entering the public domain in Canada and the EU, but not the USA, where the public domain is stagnant https://boingboing.net/2017/12/31/life-plus-70.html #termextension #publicdomain #orphanworks #Copyfight #usausausa #canada #Disney #Post #eu