The headline “Copyright Office Sides With Publishers in Proposal for Handling ‘Orphan’ Works” (The Chronicle, February 17) and the accompanying article on the ...

Most of you have never heard of an “orphan work.” Short of a flurry of interest in child orphanages promoted by some neoconservative politicians as a response to abortion-rights advocacy, the word ...

Here's the problem that Congress is trying to solve: imagine that you are a well-known graphic artist who gains huge popularity from the funny videos you routinely post to YouTube. One day, you come ...

Both houses of Congress are acting on measures designed to limit the liability of good-faith users of orphan works—copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or impossible to find. The Senate ...

Editor's note: We're opening up our pages today to a guest post from James V. DeLong from the Convergence Law Institute. He is also special counsel at Kamlet Shepherd and Reichert. Both houses of ...

Twitter: it's not just for telling friends about that burrito you had for lunch. Public Knowledge's Alex Curtis spent yesterday's Senate committee hearing on the orphan works bill "live twittering" ...

Lost in the House of Representatives' push to pass $700 billion bailout legislation is the so-called Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008. Late Friday, the Senate passed the measure and sent it to ...