What shall we do with the orphans?

Patrick Thomas / NY Times

Lewis Hyde, The New York Times | Full Story | Google’s books lawsuit spotlights copyrighted works whose creators are AWOL. Should copyright law be as Europeans had shaped inheritance—to serve powerful families—or as Americans would shape it so that something new under the sun —“the people”—might receive the legacy of all their forebears had created? >>

Published 09.06.01 00:00:00 -0500 GMT | Posted by Andrew Garib on 09.10.03 | |