<div><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/library-copyright-alliance-submits-reply-comments-to-copyright-office-on-orphan-works/">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/library-copyright-alliance-submits-reply-comments-to-copyright-office-on-orphan-works/</a></div>
<div> </div><div><h1 class="entry-title">Library Copyright Alliance Submits Reply Comments to Copyright Office on Orphan Works</h1><div class="entry-meta"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <span class="entry-date">March 8, 2013</span> <span class="by-author"><span class="sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard">TWegner</span> </span> </div>
<div class="entry-content"><p><a href="http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/"></a>On March 5, the <a href="http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/">Library Copyright Alliance</a> (<a title="Library Copyright Alliance" href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/tag/library-copyright-alliance/">LCA</a>, of which the American Library Association is a member) filed <a href="http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm~doc/lca-orphan-works-reply-comments-05mar13.pdf?utm_campaign=LCA%20reply%20comments%20re%20orphan%20works%20%28March%205%2C%202013%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=reply%20comments%20%28PDF%29">reply comments</a> (pdf) to the US Copyright Office in response to the office’s October 22, 2012, Notice of Inquiry about the current state of play with orphan works and mass digitization.</p>
<p>LCA reviewed the comments filed to date and concluded that</p><blockquote><p>the significant diversity of opinion expressed in the initial comments submitted in the response to the Copyright Office’s Notice of Inquiry Concerning Orphan Works and Mass Digitization indicates that it will be extremely difficult to forge a consensus approach to these issues…In light of these fundamental disagreements, LCA recommends that the Copyright Office pursue non-legislative solutions such as continuing to make the Copyright Office records more accessible. Moreover, the Office should seek to bolster fair use in both judicial and international fora. If the Copyright Office does decide to recommend a legislative solution, the only approach likely to achieve consensus is, as we suggested in our initial comments, a one sentence amendment to 17 U.S.C. § 504(c)(2) that grants courts the discretion to reduce or remit statutory damages if the user conducted a reasonably diligent search prior to the use.</p>
</blockquote><p>For more, see LCA’s <a href="http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/lca-orphanworks-comments-14jan13.pdf">original comments</a> (pdf) to the Copyright Office.</p><p>Also see the <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/noi_10222012/?utm_campaign=LCA%20reply%20comments%20re%20orphan%20works%20%28March%205%2C%202013%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=full%20list%20of%20comments">full list of comments</a> on the Copyright Office’s website.</p>
<p> </p><p><a href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/library-copyright-alliance-submits-reply-comments-to-copyright-office-on-orphan-works/">http://www.districtdispatch.org/2013/03/library-copyright-alliance-submits-reply-comments-to-copyright-office-on-orphan-works/</a></p>
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