Solving the Orphan Works Problem for the United States

Authors: David Hansen, Kathryn Hashimoto, Gwen Hinze, Pamela Samuelson and Jennifer Urban Abstract: Over the last decade, the problem of orphan works — i.e., copyrighted works whose owners cannot be located by a reasonably diligent search — has come sharply into focus as libraries, archives, and other large repositories of copyrighted works have sought to [...]