Re: Digest Number 3470

From: "Mary E Tyler"
>> This draws an interesting parallel. Performing rights
>> payments, which include plays also, are effectively made 
>> on
>> a bulk basis; a payment on behalf of the copyright dues 
>> from
>> all listeners. It is a recognition of the law, not  an
>> avoidance. Not dissimilar either to the royalties a copy
>> maker pays to the rightsholder or owner in normal
>> publishing.
>
>
> And this is how Orphan works ought to be handled. Any 
> group that wants
> to come into libraries and scan orphan works should be 
> allowed to. And
> they should all pay into a fund that reimburses authors 
> and
> illustrators. It's not like this stuff cannot be tracked. 
> What to do
> with the money that never gets collected? Now that's an 
> interesting
> conundrum that I have no desire to leave to congress.
>
> dej

I am sorry dej, but I contest your statement: ' It's not 
like this stuff cannot be tracked'. There is no tracking 
available. For a number of works you can find entries in 
various places, but these are nothing more than that. Thre 
is no compulsory registration of copyright material 
anywhere, and I doubt if such compulsion would include all 
material anyway.

Worst of all such legislation would open the floodgates to 
wholesale breach of any material. The arguments make no 
sense to me, except with the intent of destroying copyright 
by the back door - something Google seems intent on doing.

Joseph Harris 



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