Best Preactices for Orphan Works

The Society of American Archivists have published a best practices for orphan works. The best practices/standards are available as a pdf file for download at http://www.archivists.org/standards/

The Poor Starving Writers' Cookbook

How should writers be paid for their work? Should they be paid for each piece or should they be paid a salary? Should all writers be subsidized by the government? By Google? By libraries? By readers? By publishers?

What does copyright really mean? Does it protect only corporate entities who publish or distribute works? Wasn't copyright protection meant to stimulate creativity at the origin of creativity--the writing level?

Here is a PowerPoint presentation that begins to explore these questions:


https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/xythoswfs/webui

Is Google being unfair to authors again?

Pity the poor starving writer. Not only have publishers been taking advantage of writers, but now Google steps in and promises to add insult to injury.








http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/392

http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/dmca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE