In my post about the Author Guild’s lawsuit against HathiTrust and some of its university partners, I promise to consider further the question of why the complaint was so focused on orphan works.  Why the plaintiffs put so much emphasis there, since presumably they cannot show that they or the members they represent actually hold … Continue reading Is it all about the Orphans? →

Ever since Duke, along with Cornell, Emory and Johns Hopkins Universities, announced that we would be participants in the Hathi Trust’s Orphan Works project, I have been talking with a number of different reporters, trying to explain what the project is and why we are doing it.  I was rather pleased to see that the … Continue reading Why is adopting orphans controversial? →

(by Peter Hirtle) CLIR has inaugurated a new publication series called Ruminations, and for its first report, it has published an incredibly interesting and important report by John Wilkin. In “Bibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of...