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US: Orphan Works

I love archival materials. It is one of the main reasons I wanted to be a historian. But, there are many legal problems associated with their use. My inquiry into copyright began because I wanted to know more about fair use and copyright, but I soon found that that was not where the problem was greatest. It is with the orphan works in the unpublished arena. Here is one example. I work with the Papers of Vera Brittain, a well-studied World War I writer. But to my knowledge no one has used her vast collection of fan mail – people who responded to her memoir with their own stories. But how is one to track down these people – from the 1930s to the 1960s? The orphan work problem inhibits one’s scholarship.

E. Townsend in a blog entry on Oprhan works
http://academiccopyright.typepad.com/academiccopyright/2005/03/some_draft_comm.html#more


OpenEdition schlägt Ihnen vor, diesen Beitrag wie folgt zu zitieren:
Klaus Graf (23. März 2005). US: Orphan Works. Archivalia. Abgerufen am 5. November 2024 von https://doi.org/10.58079/c1p4


Autor: Klaus Graf

Historiker und Archivar, Blogger

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