[Foundation-l] Comment on Copyright Orphans

Tue Apr 19 05:22:16 UTC 2005

Stuart Orford wrote:

>On 4/12/05, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
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>>I already put my previous submissions into the mailing list.  It's No.
>>697 in the records of the Copyright Office.  All 714 submissions may be
>>read as pdf files.  Is there a way to do a text search for all those pdf
>>files to see if any other submissions used the string "wiki"?
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>http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site%3Acopyright.gov%2Forphan%2F+%28wiki+OR+wikipedia+OR+wikimedia%29&btnG=Search&meta=
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Many thanks that's a big help

>www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0236-Waddell.pdf
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One paragraph contribution by Wikipedian Michael Waddell urging them to 
do something, with emphasis on images

>www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0663-IndependentFilm.pdf
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Submission by interns at USC School of Law on behalf of independant 
filmmakers.  Makes concrete proposals to open things up, but their 
proposals could be improved.  No substantive reference to wikis or open 
source, but references Wikipedia's [[Ephemeral film]]  in a footnote

>www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0523-Schack.pdf
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One paragraph contribution by Wikipedian Brian Schack

>www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0580-Kilfiger.pdf
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A short presentation by Wikipedian James Kilfiger. Emphasis on images.

>www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0025-Krupp.pdf
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One paragraph presentation by Wikipedian Alex Krupp.  Emphasis on 
sharing with third world

>www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0697-Saintonge.pdf
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My own presentation

I'm glad to see that four other Wikipedians took the time to make 
comments.  Perhaps someone can track down their user names and give them 
an official "thank you" from the Board.

I have read several submissions already, and there is an apparently 
clear majority of them who favour doing something about orphan works..

I agree with Anthere that we perhaps should submit something 
representing WMF, but it's hard to know what kind of official position 
we should take   In my own submission I certainly could not go so far as 
to state that I was representing the Foundation.  They were entirely my 
own opinions.  What points should we be makeing?

Ec