Be sure to read Larry Lessig’s op-ed in today’s New York Times, “Little Orphan Artworks.”  Larry’s piece is also the subject of an item on the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, “Lessig on the Proposed Orphaned Works Act: ‘Unfair and Unwise’.”

For us librarians:

    ” . . . The uncertain standard of the bill doesn’t offer any efficient opportunity for libraries or archives to make older works available, because the cost of a ‘diligent effott’ is not going to be cheap. The only beneficiaries would be a new class of ‘digilgent effort’ searchers who would be a strain on library budgets.”