AGAINST THE GRAIN
v.19 # 6 December 2007 - January 2008 © Katina Strauch

Orphan Works: A Look at the Issue from Varying Perspectives

	Rumors	1
	From Your Editor	6
	Letters to the Editor	6
	Deadlines	6
	Guest Editor, Edward W. Colleran
Annual Report Issue— eBooks: State of the Art Guest Editors, Cris Ferguson, Betty Kelly and Julie Carter (Furman)
	Orphan Works: A Look at the Issue from Varying Perspectives (pdf) Edward W. Colleran — What happens when the search for permission from the copyright holder comes to a dead-end?	1
	Orphan Works — Bringing the Past Into the Present? (pdf) Karen Oye — The Copyright Office Report on Orphan Works recognizes the severity of the problem of orphan works, but the solutions proposed create new controversies. Do orphan works comprise the majority of the record of 20th century culture?	16
	When the Copyright Owner Can't Be Found (pdf) Eugene Mopsik and Victor S. Perlman — Legislation introduced in the House in the last Congress to deal with orphan works had broad support, but it had one fatal flaw: it ignored the unique problems relating to visual artworks and would have savaged many of the copyright interests in photographs and other visual artwork.	22
	Will Anyone Adopt the Orphans? (pdf) Dan Duncan — H.R. 5439, the bill as originally introduced, and Title II of H.R.6052, the Copyright Modernization Act of 2006, failed to gain House Judiciary Committee approval before the 109th Congress adjourned. Will/can a bill covering Orphan Works ever be passed? Not unless publishers and users come together and determine whether and what kind of orphan works bill they want.	26
	Op Ed Celia Rabinowitz — Another Humble Opinion - Celia responds to Rick Anderson’s “Reference Services, Scalability, and the Starfish Problem” in Against the Grain, v.19#5, November 2007. Maybe Librarians should help people.	30
	Back Talk (pdf) Tony Ferguson — Libraries: Home Away From Home? - What kind of home should your library be?	86
	Libraries and the Digital Commons Ellen Finnie Duranceau — Ellen has eight principles for an emerging ecosystem. What can libraries do to support their campuses in this new environment?	38
	Jonathan Dahl (pdf) Katina Strauch — Staff Director, Sales & Marketing, IEEE	32
	Dr. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (pdf | text) Katina Strauch — President and Publisher, IGI-Global	34
	Edward W. Colleran	16
	Karen Oye (pdf)	20
	Eugene H. Mopsik	24
	Dan Duncan	28
	From the Reference Desk Tom Gilson — Reviews of Reference Titles - This month some of Tom’s selections are Encyclopedia of the Cold War, and Encyclopedia of Environment and Society.	44
	Book Reviews Debbie Vaugh — Monographic Musings - This month’s mantra: “be happy!”	46
Edited by Bryan Carson, Bruce Strauch and Jack Montgomery
	Cases of Note Bruce Strauch — Andrea Blanch v. Jeff Koons, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Deutsche, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 467 F.3d 244; 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 26786 (2006).	48
	Questions and Answers Laura Gasaway — Copyright Column - Questions and Answers galore! What should conferences ask of speakers and presenters?	49
	What’s So Free About Freelancing? Bill Hannay — The Second Circuit’s Decision in Michnick v. Thomson Corp	84
	From the University Presses Sanford G. Thatcher — How to Establish a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication, Part I: A Paranoid View - This is about the ACRL report in early November on “Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement.”	50
	And They Were There Ramune Kubilius — Reports from the 2007 (27th Annual) Charleston Conference - Compiled by Ramune Kubilius and her crack team of reporters.	53
	Biz of Acq Susan E. Thomas — Sample Magazine Display at the Pratt Institute Library: 2003-2006 - This is a way to involve patrons in collection development.	76
	Biz of Acq Xan Arch — The Wiki of Acq - Should you move your procedures to a Wiki?	78
	Something To Think About Tinker Massey — You Had to Be There! - This one’s about, guess what, Charleston!	64
	Group Therapy Christine Fischer — Database Trials - They pop up at all times of the year and who should have access to the trials?	65
	Library Marketplace John Riley — Looking Forward–Looking Back - Heading into the New Year John looks at some of the developments – the library as publisher, scanning book collections, greening of libraries and publishers, celebrating the book, and the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle.	66
	Drinking From the Firehose (pdf) Eleanor Cook — The Serial’s Life Cycle: The Report of Its Death has been Greatly Exaggerated - Should Serials and Serials Departments be renamed?	68
	As I See It! John Cox — Why is Private Equity Interested in Publishing? - We are reading with interest …	69
	Little Red Herrings (pdf) Mark Herring — Reading Is, Like, You Know, Sooooo Gross! - Is the “libra” going to leave “library” because we are too casual about promoting reading?	70
	Something Else To Think About Tinker Massey — Where Do Teams Fit in? - It takes a team to get the binding done.	71
	Bet You Missed It Bruce Strauch — Press Clippings - Read about avatars and Elizabeth Taylor! What could be better?	73
	Issues in Vendor/Library Relations Bob Schatz — Atom and Eve, or, On The Beginning of New Things - This is about the transformation of the book.	74
	Case Studies in Collection and Technical Services Anne Langley — Case Study Seven: A New Employee — What Do I Do? - What to do with a new employee	83
	Innovations Affecting Us Elaine Robbins — In this column Elaine discusses the ins and outs of using LibraryThing to catalog book collections online and delves into how such a site can enhance library services.	72
	Standards Column (pdf) Todd Carpenter — Electronic Resources: Challenges and Opportunities - about ERMS, electronic resource management systems.	79
	I Hear the Train A Comin’ Greg Tananbaum — In November Greg took his column “live” to the Charleston Conference. Here he shares some fascinating insights into what is comin’ around the bend in the land of scholarly communication.	80
	Wandering the Web Deana Groves — Pop-up and Moveable Books - Although the concept of a book with moveable parts dates to the 1600s, the true flowering of this book format was the nineteenth century.	82
	2008 Charleston Conference Call for Papers, Ideas, Panels, Diatribes, Themes, Speakers, Preconferences, etc. - Now’s the 'best of times' to send in your ideas for preconferences, presentations, etc.	8
	Adventures in Librarianship Ned Kraft — Librarian Psychology - In order to better understand ourselves and our colleagues …	64