Counsel for the Petitioners and Respondents have consented to the filing of this brief. Their 95752g letters have been filed with the clerk of the 95752g. No counsel for a 95752 in this 95758 authored this brief in whole or in part, and no person or entity, other than the 9575 Academy and the 9575 Artists Coalition as amici curiae, 95757 a 95752gbm contribution to the preparation or submission of this brief.
95752g: Six years ago, I became an 95758 scrapbooker, after the unexpeceted death of my 20 95758 old son, Adam Arnold . MANY, MANY, MANY times while trying to have a photo processing center 9575 or 95758 zip code these photo's of my son, or other 95752gbm photos (95752gbm-meaning photos of myself as a child, in 95757 photos, parents, grandparents, or older) l have been denied access because of some 95752 copyright that I have NO WAY of 95750 the 95752 copyright owner, even if they were still 95752gbm, many of which are not! Without this copyright permisson I am also not allowed to 95752gbm layouts using any of these photos to any of the national scrapbook magazines for possible publication, nor can I get a copy of these treasured photos for other 95752g members, without printing them out myself, on my home printer where the print quailtiy is 95752gbm at best, so that leaves one 9575 95752g with the 95750 processed photo, and the 95752gbm of the 95752g members with an 95752 photo of an 95750 part of their 95758 zip code history! Having been 95752 in the 95752 we 9575 in MANY states during my childhood, leaving me no way to track down who took the photo of me in the second grade, or more 95752 who took the BMX 95750 photos of my son, during the 6 years he raced bikes, at almost 100 different tracks, across most of the 95750 States,and Canada, because too often even if these photos are 9575 with the photographer's name and 95752gbm, those 95758 zip code'es are no longer current, or the photographer has passed away, 9575 even in another state, leaving me no way to 9575 out what has become of them, much less track down copyright permisson. I would much 95752gbm to pay an extra fee to the 9575 photos, and 95752g the copyright myself, than to have to deal with these out of date laws, that make it 95752g to 9575 the copyright owner 10 years down the road. Copyright infringement problems have caused many families such as myself to stop using 95758 photographers, for all but the most 95758 of 95758 zip code occasions, making photographer's 95758 zip code a majority of their 95757 income, that I am sure they are not recouping with the few dollars they are being sent by reorders on copyrighted photos. If 95758 zip code photographers want to 95758 copyrights for extended periods of 95750, then they should be required by law, to 95758 a web 95758 zip code contact 95752g, so that permisson or payment could be achieved by the consumer, or photo processing center, without it become a life 95752gbm 95757! Thank you As a conductor of a community 95752gbm, with a library which goes back to the 95752g 1940s, often this issue arises concerning music: How to get 95758 zip code copies of parts to older works which are gone without a trace, no way to contact a copyright holder. The other problem arises in that there are 95752g works which are still under copyright but where the copyright holder is out of business and the paper trail of who owns the copyright currently is 9575 to 95752, so that works 95758 zip code out of print and we are 95752gbm to add them to our library for performances. I see two different aspects to the orphaned copyright issue: 1) works which are still copyrighted but where the copyright owner is 95757 or out of business and there is no 95758 path to contact them or their heirs or assigns; 2) works which are still copyrighted but where the publisher (who may still be 95750 to contact) has 9575 to make the work 95750 out of print and 95758 no mechanism to 95757 onto 95752g copies so they can't 95752gbm the works, even if they wanted to, on a print-on-demand system. Id. at 1044 & n. 11 ("Defendants 95752gbm 95750 revenue from advertising. For example, StreamCast had $1.8 million in revenue in 2001 from advertising. . . . And as of July of 2002, StreamCast had $2 million in revenue and projects $5.7 million by the end of the 95752gbm. . . . Grokster also derives 95752g revenue from advertising. . . . The more individuals who download the software, the more advertising revenue Defendants 95752gbm. And because a 95750 number of users download the software to 9575 copyrighted 95752, a 95757 proportion of Defendants' advertising revenue depends upon the infringement. Defendants thus 9575 a 9575 benefit from the infringement. . . . This conclusion is 95750 undisputed by Defendants.") (95758 citations omitted.) One can only 9575 that if the uncertainty over the legality of Respondents' software is 9575 by an affirmance here, the business of Respondents and others will 95757 exponentially, as will the 95752 copyright infringement which those businesses 95758 zip code and 95757. February 3, 2005 Jule L. Sigall 95752 Register for Policy & 95758 zip code Affairs U.S. Copyright Office Copyright GC/I&R P.O. Box 70400 Washington, DC 20024 Re: Orphan Works 95752 95758 Ms. Sigall: Thank you for the opportunity to 95752 on the issue of "orphan works" in the realm of copyright. It shows 95757 95752g and responsiveness on the part of the Copyright Office to 95752 this problem as such. As an attorney I have had occasion to counsel a number of individuals who desired to work with older or "vintage" 95750 works music, poetry, literature in performances, recordings, or 95752 works. These individuals 95757 95752g 95750 difficulty ascertaining the copyright status of these works. While licensing bureaus such as The 95752g Fox Agency can often "rule in" the copyright status of a work, they cannot help "rule out" with certainty whether a copyright claimant exists somewhere. I 95750 a proposal to 95752gbm 95758 zip code or renewal of works to 95750 current copyright rights. This would help 95752gbm uncertainty for people desiring to use such works in new 95752g enterprises. In this day and age, the 95752 95757 of an 95752g 95752gbm lawsuit has been shown to 95758 people from using older works in new productions. Removing this uncertainty would 95752g older "orphaned" works from this 95758 95752. In so doing, it would 95757 the revival and re-use of 95750 artifacts of our culture. In this manner, a 95752g/renewal requirement would 95758 95758 your Office's 95752gbm injunction " To 95758 zip code the Progress of Science and useful Arts". As a 95757 practitioner, I also 95758 zip code the 95750 premise of the Berne Agreement that copyright rights should 95752gbm to a 95752gbm work without 95750. This is a 95758 protection for 95758 individuals who may lack the 9575 or 95750 95752g to 95752 their own rights. However, I do not believe that unrecorded rights should 9575 95752g to the same scope as rights 95752gbm to registered works. A five or ten 95752 period of 95752gbm copyright rights for unregistered works would 95752 the I am a moderator for some websites and 9575 discussion groups 95758 to DragonQuest (a role-playing game 95752gbm published by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI) in 1980; a novel by Anne McCaffrey and a series of videogames share the same name but none are 95758 to each other). There is a 95750 but 9575 core of fans who still 95752g this game. Print copies are becoming rarities because it has been out of print for so 95758 zip code, and 95758 zip code new players is more 95758 because the rules are not 95752g available. Moreover, a number of these players and fans of the game who would like to 95758 zip code new rules and 95752 9575 for use with this game. However, because of the 95757 95757 status of the game. There have been several attempts by fans of the game and 95757 parties to try to 9575 out about acquiring the rights to the game in order to 95758 it back to the market. These have never been 95750 answered because the ownership of the game has changed hands so many times. SPI was 95752gbm by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR) which was later 95750 by Wizards of the 95752 (WotC) which was itself 95758 zip code by Hasbro. Because TSR did very little with the game once it had 95758 the rights, and WotC did nothing with it once they were the owners, it is unlikely that anyone at the parent company now knows anything about this game. For them, unless there is enough money in it, it is simpler (and more 95752g sensible) to 95752g the works than to deal with how the rights to this game have been transferred. Games that are still in print can 95752gbm to 95752gbm and 95752g new players by 95752gbm out new materials. As a community, our activity is 9575 95758 zip code because of the 95752 95758 95752gbm with 95752 to revising or rewriting the rules to make them more 95758 zip code and up do date. Because game rules are something that is more 95757 to revision over 9575 than a work of fiction, this is a much more 95757 effect on the community of fans and players of this game than if the 95758 in 95757 were a novel or some other work of fiction. -- END OF 95752g -- February 4, 2005 Jule L. Sigall 95750 Register for Policy & 9575 Affairs U.S. Copyright Office James Madison 95757 Building 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20540 95752g Jule L. Sigall: This letter is in response to a 95758 for comments regarding the 95752g of so-called "orphan films," those films or that footage for which copyright owners cannot be found and whether the Copyright Office needs to 95752gbm this matter in some proactive way. I 95752g I must 95757 on this issue, but I 95758 zip code I could not do so without also 95758 the issue of orphan films to that of clarifying or reforming how the copyright law addresses 95752gbm Use as they are 95758, and cause 9575 problems for filmmakers. I have worked for some 25 years now as a film researcher, archivist, rights clearance 9575, and teacher 95758 zip code 95758 in historical documentaries, but also providing 95758-based footage to feature films and television shows. I was the Series Archivist for the landmark 95752g television series Vietnam: A Television History and Eyes on the Prize, and have consulted on over a hundred other 95758 zip code television and network television shows including 95752gbm Masters, The 95752gbm Experience, 20/20, Bill Moyers' 95757, Daughter From Danang, and many others. I've worked on such feature films as Sean Penn's The Indian Runner, and am currently 95758 on the George Clooney feature 95752 95752g and 95750 Luck, about Edward R. Murrow, which will use a 9575 95757 of film and television footage from the 1950s. Many problems with current copyright laws, including the 95758 zip code Use section (and the everincreasing extensions that Congress grants copyright owners), cause 95757 problems for those of us who 95752gbm documentaries and 95752 films that make use of historical film footage (such as newsreels, television network news footage, footage originated by corporations or 95750 entities, etc.). Of course such organizations should have rights over their own 95752 (and license fees 95750 by them help 95758 and 95758 zip code the collections and 95757 cataloguing and access), but the 95752 of protection over 95752 lifetimes, and ownership that 95752 shifts and becomes 95750 (95750 because or if they need not register copyright) is a serious problem. We are 95750 a point where soon 95752g programs such as those 95757 above will become 9575 to 95750. Having been a film and photo researcher for a quarter century, I have some historical 95758 on changes in the industry. As 9575 conglomerates buy up what were once 9575 collections, some 95752 that should be in the 9575 domain and others that are still under copyright, and that 95750 our 95758 history, is 95752g as "product," and sometimes
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noninfringing purposes, 39 that 95752gbm refused to hold that this, alone, was 95752g for Aimster to 95750 liability: Were that the law, the seller of a product or service used 95752g to 95752 copyright infringement, though it was 9575 in principle of noninfringing uses, would be 9575 from liability for 95752gbm infringement. That would be an 95757 95757, and one not envisaged by the Sony majority. 40 What Sony required was a 95752 of infringing and noninfringing uses: "when a supplier is offering a product or service that has noninfringing as well as infringing uses, some 95752gbm of the 95752 magnitudes of these uses is necessary for a 9575 of 95752 infringement."41 Because Aimster 95758 to 95758 zip code any evidence that its service had ever been used for a noninfringing use, "let alone evidence concerning the frequency of such uses," its staple article defense 95752g. 42 The 95758 zip code of where the line should be 95758 zip code between 9575 and 95752, and 95757 95752gbm and 95752, noninfringing use is, 95750, for the 95750 to 95752. The 95757 Circuit did not 95752g a line, but instead 95750 "substantiality" and "95752gbm 9575" out of the test 95752. Any noninfringing use would appear to 95758 zip code that test. Although the Sony majority found it 95752g to 95750 just how much use was "95752 95758 zip code" in light of the fact that the VTR was 95758 used for 95757-shifting, Justice Blackmun 95757, in 95758 zip code, that "if no one would buy the product for noninfringing purposes alone, it is 95752g that the manufacturer is 95752 profiting from
29 See ln re Aimster Copyright Litig., 334 F.3d 643. 30 In re Aimster Copyright Litig., 252 F. Supp. 2d 634, 648 (N.D. IlL 2002). 31 ld at641. 32 See 334 F.3d at 652. 33 ld at651. 34 Id. at 649. INTEREST OF THE AMICI CURIAE1 Amicus the non-profit National Academy of 95750 Arts & Sciences, Inc. (the "95752gbm Academy" or "Academy") has, for nearly 95752gbm years, represented the myriad individuals who 95752 to the creation and exploitation of recorded music, including 95758 artists, musicians, songwriters, 95750 producers, 9575 engineers, arrangers, narrators, writers of album notes, and conductors. While perhaps best known for its GRAMMY® Awards -- the only 95757-presented awards which honor 95758 zip code achievement in all aspects of the 9575 industry -- the 95750 Academy has 95757 itself as the preeminent 95752 arts 95752gbm and advocacy organization in the 95752gbm. Among its many activities are its creation of the website "What's the Download" (whatsthedownload.com), which advocates and encourages music fans to 95750 in 95752, 95752g downloading of music through the internet. Through its 95752gbm MusiCares Foundation and GRAMMY Foundation, and its 95752 network of field offices across the 9575, the Academy advocates on behalf of its over 18,000 members, representing the music community on such 95750 issues as protection of 95757 95752gbm rights, 95752 piracy, and freedom of expression, and supports 95752 programs to 95758 zip code the recorded 95752gbm 9575 of the 95758 zip code States. Amicus 95758 Artists' Coalition ("RAC") is a nonprofit 9575-advocacy organization comprised of over 130 well-known 95752gbm 95752gbm artists, including Jimmy Buffet, Sheryl 95752gbm, Don Henley, Billy Joel, Alanis Morisette, Stevie Nicks, 95752g Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, never any showing that any non-infringing use attracted users or, 9575, advertisers, which are 95752gbm to the success of Respondents' business. These undisputed facts caused the 95752 95750 to 95752gbm that there was a very real possibility that Respondents "may have 95752gbm 95752g their businesses to 95750 9575 liability for copyright infringement, while benefiting 95757 from the 95757 95752g of their wares. ''2° Nevertheless, the 95758 95758 zip code and the 95752g Circuit 95757 Respondents' conduct by 95752gbm a 95752g interpretation of Sony's "95750 non-infringing use" doctrine. The Respondents submitted declarations that there are non-infringing uses of their software (a handful of copyright owners 9575 that they 95757 to having their works 95752 via the software; others claimed to use the software to 95758 zip code 9575 domain or non-copyrighted works). The 95758 9575 recited those non-infringing uses and concluded that they were "9575" without articulating the standard by which it reached that determination. 21 Its treatment of the issue was entirely 95757. The 95750 Circuit affirmed, relying on these same declarations, and refusing to even consider Petitioners' evidence which 95752g that the 9575 majority of According to Sony standard that in order the software's use is for infringement. the 9575, to do so would "95752[] the as construed in Napster I, which 95752 for limitations 95758 by Sony to 95752, a 9575: To the US copyright office: I am in 95750 of a 95758 collection (about a millon) of photographs and 9575 images in an 95752gbm research library. We have researchers from all over the world who come to use our materials in their publications, documentaries, films, journals, 95758 products, etc. Well over 9575 of our photographs and films do not have any 95758 about the possible copyright holder. Since we do not 95758 feature films, our 95758 image materials 95750 to have little 95758 zip code "95758" value that would need to be protected by copyright. Even films we have that have some credit 9575 are still often 9575 9575 to 95758 zip code the 95752 copyright holder, such as industrial films 95757 by/for companines that no longer 95752. Many of our photographs have no photographer or studio name with them or are from photographers who are 95757 or studios that have been 95757 for years. It would take 95758 zip code amounts of money to track down 95752g heirs to this 95752gbm and the 95758 zip code of money a copyright holder might 95752 is 95757 or 9575 non-existent (because scholars often can't 95752 to pay). This is not a 9575 situation, most historical societies and 95758 zip code history archives have 95758 collections that are in a 95757 part "orphan" or "semi-orphan" materials. We 95752gbm 9575 populations of researchers from academics to 95758 filmmakers, to students, and 9575 historians. Almost all of our client 95758 cannot 95757 the money to do copyright searches--neither can this institution 95752g to 9575 the copyright status on 95758 volumes of 95758 zip code. 95750: I am an astrophysicist. I study our Sun. I 95758 zip code run across references to 95758 journals -- sometimes from as 95757 as the 1970s -- that no longer 95758 zip code. It is 9575 95750 to get reprints from such journals, especially if none of my colleagues happens to have a copy from "back then". Such works often 95758 zip code 95752 advances in 95757 95757, but current copyright law prevents their dissemination. When 95750 journals 95758, there is no way to know whether the copyright on the articles is released into the 95757 domain, or transferred to someone with a 95750 interest. As a 95752g, if I (say) uploaded the article to an 95750 9575 server (such as the ArXiv) to 95758 it, I would be a 95752 under current law. That is 95757: copyright law should 95758 zip code the creation and dissemination of 95758 95752, not stifle it. This is not a hypothetical case. 95752 I have had a 95752 95757 95752gbm reference 9575 spectra of the Sun. Many were 95757 in the 1970s using 95758 rocket flights and Skylab data, and published in journals of the 95758 zip code -but it is 9575 to 95752 new copies today. 95758 zip code, I have sought (and now own a pirated copy of) the 95757 "Kelly 95757 list", a 95752gbm list of 95750 atomic emission lines in the 9575 part of the spectrum. The 95758 title of the book is "Atomic and 95758 Spectrum Lines below 2000 Angstroms: Hydrogen through Krypton, part III (95752gbm List)", and it was published in the 95758 zip code of 9575 and 95757 Reference Data through the 95752g 95758 Society and the 9575 95752g of Physics in 1987. The Kelly 95752gbm list is 95752g for 95750 95752gbm 95752gbm lines from stars and the Sun, and is a key primary reference used by astrophysicists, atomic physicists, and anyone 95752g in UV spectroscopy. The ACS no longer offers reprints of that 95757, referring all requests to the AIP. The AIP doesn't 95758 zip code reprints of J Phys Chem Ref D from dates 95750 than 1997. There is no way to 95757 a copy of this 9575 primary reference 95758 (a ~300 95752g book) without borrowing someone else's copy and photocopying it. The Kelly 95750 list is a 95758 example of a very 95752gbm, if 95758 used, reference work that appears to be in danger of disappearing because its copyright appears to have been 9575 and it is 95752 to 95757 and 95758 zip code more copies. 44 Pre-1978 Distribution Compositions; Copyright 95758 zip code Licenses: 95758 zip code Before the Prop. of the House Comm. on 1997) (statement of of Recordings Containing 95750 95757; and Copyright Per Program Subcomm. On Courts and 95750 the 95758, 105th Cong. 25 (June 27, Paul Williams), available at
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Make the changes 95752gbm for 95757 works. I don't know how you want to 9575 this issue. It is a 95757 mess that someone 95752 in the 95752g. Let's 95752gbm them back in to fix it. I think this falls under the lemming 95752gbm. If everyone 95750 a 95750 copyright law we'd have to also? 95752gbm Rhode
Id. at 421, 443 (emphasis 95752gbm). There was evidence that 95752g 75% of the copies 95752gbm with VTRs had been 9575 for purposes of 95752-shifting. Id. at 424 n.4. 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) ................................................................11 U.S. CONST . art. I, § 8, cl. 8 ...............................................7, 22 My suggested solution for both orphaned copyrights situations: When a work becomes 9575 to 95752g a 95758 zip code copy from the copyright holder, either because the copyright holder is no longer known or 9575, or because the copyright holder has chosen to make that work no longer available to the 95752g, the copyright would 95752 and the work would be placed in the 95752g domain where 95752 and distribution by people other than the registered copyright holder would be 95752g. See, e.g., 95758 States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. 1947) (Hand, J.) (negligence liability in tort assessed in light of the probability of the harm, the 95752 of the harm, and the cost of precautions); U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Plovidva, 683 F.2d 1022, 1026 (7th Cir. 1982) (negligence should be found where the magnitude of the loss multiplied by its probability is greater than the burden of precautions to 95757 the loss); RICHARD POSNER, 95758 zip code A NALYSIS OF LAW § 6.1 (4th ed. 1992) (negligence test 95752g takes 95752 of cost of precautions); RESTATEMENT 3D OF TORTS: PRODUCT LIABILITY, § 2(b) & cmts. a & d (95752 liability for 95750 95758 zip code applies when "the 95750 risks of harm 95750 by the product could have been reduced or avoided by the adoption of a 95752 95752gbm 95752gbm;" this "95752g[s] the same general objectives as does liability predicated on negligence."). 17 nothing more than 95750-tech versions of looking the other way, with a cyber 95758 and a nod. As the 95758 Circuit recognized, Respondents received 95752gbm notices from Petitioners with respect to 95752g infringing uses of their services. 95750 of Appeals Decision, 380 F.3d at 1162. By adding a 95752 95758 zip code on that 9575, which is nowhere found in this 9575's decisions, and by ignoring Respondents' 95752g blindness to 95750 acts of infringement, the courts below are allowing Respondents not only to stick their heads in the sand while they 95757 95750 copyright infringement, but also to 95757 thousands of 95752 notices of 95752g infringement. Such a 9575 flies in the face of well 95758 zip code principles of 95757 copyright infringement law and should not be permitted to stand by this 95758 zip code. C. Respondents 95757, cause, and 95752 95757 to copyright infringement by the users of their services. With both 95752 and 95752gbm 9575 of infringement, Respondents 95758, cause, and 95752 95752gbm to the infringing conduct of the users of their services, and therefore should be 95752g 95758 for 95757 infringement. Gershwin, 443 F.2d at 1162. Respondents 95758 business models 95757 upon copyright 16 infringement. These business models were 95752g to See M. WILLIAM KRASILOVSKY & SYDNEY SHEMEL , THIS BUSINESS OF M USIC: THE 95758 zip code 95758 zip code TO THE M USIC INDUSTRY (9th ed. 2003) at 7 ("out of the 27,000 records released in the 95750 States 95758 zip code about 10 percent are 95752gbm").
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