While there is no Orphan Works Act in place yet, by most accounts from people in the know there will be one in our lifetime. And when OW does pass there should already be a process in place to mitigate some of the damage that such a bill may exert on image creators. Why close the door after the horse has left the barn. Even absent any OW bill this service and others similar to it have value in tracking image use for creators and potential income from exercising ownership rights. Has anyone who is posting on this subject actually tried the service to see if it has value to them? ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) has been working with the creators of C-Registy to modify the language that may be objectionable to image creators which they are very amenable to modifying and I know for a fact that they have good intentions and the highest integrity. When the blogosphere gets ahold of something, it's like the child's game of telephone only a billion times worse, distortion to the max.

Paul Morris
Miami, Florida