The Copyright Office announced today that it will be holding roundtable discussions about the Orphan Works issues. Here are the details from the announcement:
COPYRIGHT OFFICE ANNOUNCES PUBLIC ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS ON ORPHAN WORKS
The Copyright Office will hold public roundtable discussions regarding orphan works later this summer. The cities and dates for the discussions are as follows:
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Berkeley, California
(hosted by the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California
at Berkeley)
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
Please be aware that the Copyright Office will soon issue a notice in the Federal Register (and simultaneously on the Office's website)with more detailed information on these discussions. The notice will indicate the exact locations and times of the meetings, a summary of the issues to be discussed, and the procedure for requesting to participate in the discussions. Persons wishing to participate in the discussions must follow the procedure to be specified in the forthcoming notice.
CIS represents Creative Commons and Save the Music in submitting comments on the orphan works issue. The Coyright Office provides links to the hundreds of initial and reply comments supplied by interested parties.
{UPDATE: Copyfight's blog provides a "reader's guide to the orphan works roundtables". If you can't read through all the comments, this entry points you to some of the most important.}