Sadly, that's true on most issues. A British guy once told my husband that the problem with Americans is we're "too busy to be involved in our own lives,' meaning most people can't or won't spare the time to really learn about issues and make educated decisions. They look for headlines to tell them everything and make up their minds for them. I can understand that few would WANT to have read the 200+ page report on orphan works that the US Copyright Office issued this June, but that does not make it a "rumor" as a number of articles have claimed. Like this one, and this is now a group I can add to my mental list of astroturf orgs I guess: http://copyrightalliance.org/2015/07/visual_artists_recent_orphan_works_rumors_are_not_true#.VbFtw_lVhBc