Stop43, an Artists Bill of Rights supporter, announced a possible new threat working its way thru the UK parliment, Clause 56:
"…the IPO has sneaked an extremely broad blunt-instrument clause into a general-purpose Bill which, if enacted unaltered, will enable many of Hargreaves' recommendations to be implemented by civil servants without further Parliamentary oversight of the legislative process – MPs will only have the power to say no."
What the UK Parliment decides, as well as the EU, regarding Orphan Works usage will have a great impact on all signatories to the Berne Convention, particularly the United States.
"A work would be deemed to be orphan if, after a "diligent" search made in good faith, it was not possible to identify or locate the copyright holder."
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