Continuing our project to let the orphans find new homes, we bring this news: The U.S. Copyright Office has announced public roundtable discussions on the subject of orphan works. For now, this is what we know:

Washington, D.C.
July 26 and 27

Berkeley, Calif.
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California - Berkeley
August 2

More information should be available soon. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the Copyright Office’s e-mail newsletter or its RSS feed. They also have an RSS feed specifically for orphan works updates. Here’s their handy guide to RSS, for those not familiar, which also lists all their available RSS feeds.

Needless to say, we want to make sure that everyone has their voice heard in this discussion. If you can, please be sure to attend. Hopefully free culture advocates on both coasts (like the EFF and Public Knowledge) can help to bring the public to these roundtable talks. It’s up to us to keep this issue alive and in the public view.

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