Public Knowledge, one of the main organizations lobbying for Orphan
Works legislation, has written an extensive blog post about the status
of the bill: http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1783

For an opposite opinion, see the Illustrator's Partnership Orphan
Works blog: http://ipaorphanworks.blogspot.com

My personal opinion is that we do need Orphan Works legislation, but
it's a complicated issue and there are valid points on both sides.

-- 
Danielle Cunniff Plumer, Coordinator
Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
512.463.5852 (phone) / 512.936.2306 (fax)
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Gayle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As I indicated earlier, Congress is in recess until next year, and this is
> an election year.  It is not currently a law on the books and faces
> potential future challenge.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: artgeek <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 2:06:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Library of Virginia on Flickr // Orphan Works Act of
> 2008
>
> Actually, there's an updated version of the bill.
>
> The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 (S.2913) was recently passed by
> the Senate via a hotline vote, and the House version (Orphan Works Act of
> 2008, HR.5889) is still quite active and was nearly voted on at the end of
> last week.
>
> Thomas links:
> S.2913:  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN02913:
> HR.5889:  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR05889:
>
> Cheers / Angelique Weger

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