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) [log in to unmask] 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 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).