Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today does an excellent job in covering this proposal in a series of blog postings starting with http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=214. As Jonathan points out, Numly is uniquely positioned as a "caretaker" in facilitating the research role in the Orphaned Works proposal.
Digital works can be uploaded to Numly along with meta data about the author and copyright in return for a Numly Number. A digital fingerprint of the digital asset is created and stored in the Numly databases. If you find an image online (or any other digital document), you can determine if it has been registered at Numly and who the author/artist is via the Numly Document Validator in the Numly portal. By simply uploading the digital asset in question, Numly will return the associated Numly Number of the work along with all of the copyright meta data and a contact link. The contact link uses Numly's Secure Message Center to forward your message to the copyright holder (even if their email address has changed).
This new feature should make finding the copyright holders of orphaned works possible! Let us know what you think!
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