[Leica] "Life" Magazine photo archive hosted by Google

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

At 07:26 PM 11/18/2008, you wrote:

>Tina, you raised the issue and have been politically active. Perhaps
>someone you know could address these issues?
>
>Adam

Research on Google turns up:

"One thorny issue has already reached the courts. 
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588-5907506.html>Google faces lawsuits 
from publishers and authors that claim it is violating their 
copyrights and overstepping the boundaries of fair use laws. Google 
has made scanning books an "opt out" program for publishers, meaning 
they must actively tell the search company not to scan their books to 
stay out of the company's Web index.

The Internet Archive only plans to scan books that are in the public 
domain and those that copyright holders have given the green light 
for scanning.

Though it has been working on the effort for years, the Internet 
Archive recently jump-started its effort by 
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588-5887374.html>introducing the Open 
Content Alliance. Members include Adobe Systems, Columbia University, 
the European Archive, the Biodiversity Heritage Library and 
Smithsonian Institution Libraries."

Certainly does sound like Orphan Works is already in 
operation.  Better be sure your copyright notice is attached to 
anything on the internet or it may be an unintended participant of 
Open Content Alliance!!

Tina

Tina Manley
www.tinamanley.com