Just a quick reminder that reply comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on the subject of orphan works are due on May 9. Comments can be submitted using the form on OrphanWorks.org. These would be direct responses to the comments previously filed, which can be found on the Copyright Office’s Web site here.

We’ve written about orphan works previously ([1] [2] [3]); here’s a direct link to FreeCulture.org’s comment. Also, here are the requisite links to Copyfight and Boing Boing writing about the same thing.

After the reply comment period ends, the Copyright Office plans to hold hearings on the subject, and issue a report before the end of the year, according to Public Knowledge‘s Alex Curtis. Let’s keep this in the public eye, and let our elected officials and bureaucrats know we want a solution.

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