Prelinger explains why he feels the Orphan Works Act is a good thing.

I figured that Rick Prelinger, the head of the Prelinger Archive and Prelinger Library, would be a great guy to interview about the repercussions of the newly drafted Orphan Works Act (see our last post about its creation for details).  Rick knew even more about the subject than I had hoped. Turns out that he, Brewster Kahle (the founder of the Internet Archive) and their lawyer Lawrence Lessig (a Stanford law professor and founder of the Creative Commons) are the three people who have done the most to push this new law into existence. They started the ball rolling when they sued the U.S.  Attorney General to fix a US copyright system that has recently become, in Lessig's words, "The most inefficient property system designed by man".  For details about why this is so take a look at this video created by Lessig to explain the problem.   

Why Rick Prelinger likes the new Orphan Works Act