RE: Orphan works: due diligence prior to copying

["Harper, Georgia K" <gharper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Claire, this is precisely what all of us should be working to create and
publish to the Web -- our own estimates of what we think, for different
kinds of works, constitutes a reasonable search. Librarians are in an
excellent position to know what resources are out there and what
resources are reasonably effective, which are a waste of time, etc.

What we *really* need is a collection of such estimates, but I suppose a
google search is as good as it's likely to get: something like, "what is
reasonable search copyright owner." I did that and got a lot of
interesting things, but no definition of a reasonable search in any
medium (for any type of work). Let's get busy!!

G


Georgia Harper
Scholarly Communications Advisor
University of Texas at Austin Libraries
512.495.4653; 512.971.4325 (c)

-----Original Message-----
From: M. Claire Stewart [mailto:claire-stewart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:34 PM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Orphan works: due diligence prior to copying

Hello,

This question has come up twice in different contexts over the past
month, so I thought I'd ask the list:

I'm looking for a set of procedures that a library would follow in
attempting to secure permission to copy before making a decision that
the work is likely an orphan. Does anyone have anything to recommend?
I'm already aware of Denise Troll Covey's excellent CLIR publication
on securing permissions for digitizing books, but would love to have
other examples, articles, etc.

With thanks,
Claire
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