This Article outlines a blockchain based system to solve the orphan works problem. Orphan
works are works still ostensibly protected by copyright for which an author cannot be found …

Over the last decade, the problem of orphan works-ie, copyrighted works whose owners
cannot be located by a reasonably diligent search-has come sharply into focus as libraries …

The orphan works problem is one of the major challenges to copyright law today.'This
problem has been extensively publicized and amplified by the Google Book Search case …

How do you solve a problem like orphan works? The ability to digitize and make accessible
through the internet works that are not commercially available has sparked the imagination …

After hearing extensive witness testimony, the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and
Technology (INDU) and the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage (CHPC) …

This paper explores the adoption of Paul Samuelson’ s Public Good Theory as a
theoretical justification for a permissive licensing scheme enabling the use, and re-use …

In American libraries, museums, and archives, there currently are tens of millions of cultural
treasures, such as photos, manuscripts, and sound recordings, which hold extraordinary …

In the 2000s an interconnected set of elite projects in the United States sought to digitize “all
books in all languages” and make them available online. These mass digitization projects …

In this paper I consider law and lawlessness as interpretive practices that seek both to
unleash and control the Internet in Brazil. I analyze diverse institutions and actors: the …

Bibliotheken, Archive und Medienanstalten machen ihre analogen Bestände zunehmend im
Internet zugänglich. Teilweise sind daran Unternehmen wie Google beteiligt, mit dem Ziel …