UK National Archives: Statement on Orphan Works

4. Is the issue of orphan material economically important and relevant in practice? If yes, what technical, organisational and legal mechanisms could be used to facilitate wider use of this material? Orphan works pose a huge problem for all sorts of people including publishers, broadcasters and authors. TNA has experience of running digitisation projects where much of the time and the budget have been spent on rights clearance. The Commission is right to recognise that the cost of rights clea..