The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma: Berkeley Orphan Works and Mass Digitization Symposium
Earlier this week I participated in the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Symposium on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. I was part of a panel devoted to various solutions to the problem. Here is my presentation. The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma At its core, copyright law is based on a very simple logic–market logic. The law grants limited exclusive rights in creative works, with the expectation that such rights will then be voluntarily exchanged in a decentralized market place. Whether we believe that exchange will provide the financial incentives for creating the works in the …