The Orphan Wars (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
“Orphan books”—books that are in copyright but whose copyright owners can't
be found—have been in the news lately, thanks to lawsuits over Google's
plan to scan a copy of every book ever published. What started as a project
to make a better search engine has gradually become a focal point for
debate over whether the legal system can find a way to rescue the orphans
from copyright limbo. Some of the libraries working with Google have
announced plans to make available to their patrons digital versions of the
books they think are orphans; an authors’ group has sued to stop them. In
this column, I'll review the convoluted history of the Google Books
lawsuits, with an eye toward what they might mean for orphan books.
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