Wal-Mart = Copyfighter?


Specifically, Lisuzzo and Wal-Mart are pushing the government to change the way it deals with “orphan works,” which are described by the US Copyright Office as “copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to locate.” Orphan works can be literally anything from an old film clip to a line of computer code to a haiku scribbled on the back of a napkin. As the law stands, anyone who wants to reproduce an orphan work or tweak it into some novel creation (à la sound collagists Negativland) has to hunt down the copyright holder for permission or risk getting sued.

Source: Corante

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Posted: Wed - September 7, 2005 at 06:22 PM   WIR NewsStream by Piranha Daily News   The Stream   Previous   Next  

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