Last week I provided a link to downloadable handy guide for genealogists to the complex issue of copyright in the United States.
Today let's talk about a situation genealogists run into a lot: "orphan works," defined as the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner.
Archivists Heather Briston, Mark Allen Greene, Cathy Henderson, Peter Hirtle, Peter Jaszi, William Maher, Aprille Cooke McKay, Richard Pearce-Moses, and Merrilee Proffit have compiled a guide describing what professional archivists consider to be
best practices regarding reasonable efforts to identify and locate
rights holders.
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