Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images Away from Scholars - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"A common problem bedevils those different university collections. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain "orphan works," whose copyright owners can't be found. And the institutions that hold the collections...must deal with legal uncertainty in deciding how to share the works. A university that goes too far could end up facing a copyright-infringement lawsuit...."