Orphan books may finally find a home, readers & researchers win
Won’t you give these books a home? It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of books, printed between 1923 and 1963, are in copyright limbo. U-M’s Orphan Works project is looking to make access to these ‘lost’ writings a heck of a lot easier.Excerpt:”Orphan works are in-copyright but out-of-print works for which the current rights holders are unknown or unable to be located. The UM Library Copyright Office’s HathiTrust-funded project to identify such works in the HathiTrust collection was first announced last month, as reported by LJ. It focuses on determining the status of works in the UM collection published between 1923 and 1963.”Read the rest of the story here.
Won’t you give these books a home? It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of books, printed between 1923 and 1963, are in copyright limbo. U-M’s Orphan Works project is looking to make access to these ‘lost’ writings a heck of a lot easier.
Excerpt:
“Orphan works are in-copyright but out-of-print works for which the current rights holders are unknown or unable to be located. The UM Library Copyright Office’s HathiTrust-funded project to identify such works in the HathiTrust collection was first announced last month, as reported by LJ. It focuses on determining the status of works in the UM collection published between 1923 and 1963.”
Read the rest of the story here.
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