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An orphan work is a copyright-protected work for which rightsholders are positively indeterminate or uncontactable. Sometimes the names of the originators...

An orphan film photos is a motion picture work that has been abandoned by its owner or copyright holder. The term can also sometimes refer to any film...

States Copyright Office, Copyright Office's Report on Orphan Works (2006). See for example, Free Culture by Larry Lessig. "Reform(aliz)ing Copyright for...

An orphan work is a work whose copyright owner is impossible to identify or contact. This inability to request permission from the copyright owner often...

speaker, advocates for loosening copyright law as a means of making sharing information easier or addressing the orphan works issue and the Swedish Pirate...

Scottish film by Peter Mullan "The Orphan" (Alias), a television episode Orphan film, a film abandoned by its owner or copyright holder, or any film that has...

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative...

type of work that copyright can protect. The "orphan works" problem arose in the United States with the enactment of the Copyright Act of 1976, which...

such as copyright notice. The system of automatic copyright on fixation has been cited as one of the factors behind the growth of so-called "orphan works"...

United States copyright law, a copyright notice is a notice of statutorily prescribed form that informs users of the underlying claim to copyright ownership...

Perpetual copyright, also known as indefinite copyright, is copyright that lasts indefinitely. Perpetual copyright arises either when a copyright has no...

such orphan works stems from the extension of copyright term and the lack of requirement for the copyright owner to renew or register their copyright. In...

Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission...

living copyright holder could be identified but which are protected by the law by default (orphan works). Most common form of censorship by copyright concerns...

exceptions to copyright List of countries' copyright lengths List of films in the public domain in the United States Millar v Taylor Orphan works Paying...

Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without...

unworkable. Orphan works are works like books, newspaper articles, or films, which may be protected under copyright but for which the copyright holder cannot...

A copyright troll is a party (person or company) that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through strategic litigation, in a manner...

The history of copyright starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act...

of the most important international copyright treaties include the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). The Berne Convention...