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 ...

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 ...

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

But recognizing that many orphan works are republished online, the proposal also said that if “nonprofit institutions like libraries, museums, and universities” immediately stop using orphan works ...

As spelled out in the text, courts cannot award “damages or an account of profits” for the alleged infringement of orphan works, but can compel defendants to cough up “reasonable payment to the ...