Orphan Works bills in the House and Senate

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Friday that Congress is revisiting the longstanding problem of "orphan works" (copyrighted works whose owners may be impossible to identify and locate) in copyright law. Public Knowledge Policy Blog reports on the bills and Georgia Parker of the Center for Intellectual Property at the University of Maryland has a thoughtful discussion at ©ollectanea blog. Govtrack has the House Bill 5889 and Senate Bill 2913 and lets you subscribe to newsfeeds about them.