http://www.asmp.org/news/spec2008/orphan_update.php If anyone is still concerned about this, I suggest reading that link. "We made substantial progress towards the goal of a fair and reasonable Orphan Works bill in the last Congress. However, there remained a few difficult but important areas of controversy when the bill…
Ferg is wrong. Basing your work off of anything of anyone else's is copyright infringement. Only the original author is allowed to make derivative works. If you take someone's window from a Flickr photo, you're deriving something from that other work. You're not allowed to do it, and a court would grant the photographer…
As obviously noted in the article, this law looks like it is geared towards sites where users upload tons of images to a place like flickr, places where the sheer volume of stuff can be trickled down and disseminated across other sites and places, so much so that if a person or company were savvy enough, well they could…