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Orphan Works
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The Brand Protection Blog
Orphan works, remote learning and AI: updates regarding the Commonwealth Government’s recent proposed amendments to the Copyright Act
By Jackie O'Brien (AU), Isobel Taylor (AU)
The Australian Government has recently introduced the Copyright Amendment Bill 2026 (Bill), which seeks to amend the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (Copyright Act) to, among other things: facilitate the use of copyright materials…
IP Law Watch
Adopting an “Orphan Works” Scheme: Proposals from the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025 (Cth)
The Federal Government recently announced Australia’s first statutory orphan works scheme by way of the Copyright Amendment Bill 2025 (Cth) (Bill). Orphan works refer to copyright materials for which the…
The Brand Protection Blog
Please, sir, I want some more: Orphan works and other copyright law reforms
By Jackie O'Brien (AU), Isobel Taylor (AU)
Late last year, the Australian government released the long-awaited Exposure Draft of the Copyright Amendment (Access Reform) Bill 2021 (Cth) (Bill). The Bill is designed to implement aspects of the…
Media Law Prof Blog
Macrez on the French Case: From Orphan Books to Out-of-Print Works (and Vice-Versa) @FranckMacrez @unistra
Franck Macrez, Université de Strasbourg - CEIPI, has published The French Case: From Orphan Books to Out-of-Print Works (and Vice-Versa) as Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) Research Paper…
IP Intelligence
BakerHostetler’s Oren Warshavsky, a Law360’s Voices of the Bar for Intellectual Property, comments on “What Shall We Do About ‘Orphan Works’?”
On September 22, Law360 published an article positing the question, "What should be done to more fairly enable the use of orphan works?" after the ruling determining that Warner/Chappell Music,…
IP Intelligence
BakerHostetler’s Oren Warshavsky, a Law360’s Voices of the Bar for Intellectual Property, comments on “What Shall We Do About ‘Orphan Works’?”
On September 22, Law360 published an article positing the question, "What should be done to more fairly enable the use of orphan works?" after the ruling determining that Warner/Chappell Music,…
Italy Intellectual Property Blog
Autore non individuato o non rintracciabile? L’opera è orfana
Qualcuno finalmente si prenderà cura delle cosiddette “opere orfane” anche in Italia. È quanto ha stabilito il recentissimo D.lgs. n. 163 del 10 novembre 2014 che, nel recepire la direttiva…
DuetsBlog
©opyright ©onfetti
- James Mahoney, Razor’s Edge Communications This past summer, The Hollywood Reporter wrote about the challenge to the copyright of the Happy Birthday tune (and the lucrative licensing revenue that…
Global Media and Communications Watch
New UK licensing scheme for use of orphan works
On 29 October 2014 the UK government released its orphan works licensing scheme (the "Scheme"). An "orphan work" is a copyright work or performance for which one or more of…
Global IP & Technology Law Blog
Now orphan works can find a home
Quick off the heels to changes to the parody rules (see here), yet more changes to UK copyright law come into force today (29 October) allowing, for the first time, the use…