Orphan Works

Orphan Workswarning: this is a direct link to a PDF file
by WALT CRAWFORD
Cites & Insights, Vol 5, No 10, September 2005
"I say “distinct” because 18 comments (if I count right) are identical to an astonishing 126-page illustrators’ screed, http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/comments/OW0660-Holland-Turner.pdf, which in its first four pages denounces Creative Commons, asserts that the whole “orphaned works” concept is part of a movement to “subvert existing copyright protection for other work,” and claims that commercial stockhouses would declare huge quantities of materials “orphan” simply to save money. "