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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Sounds good, only I'd make these works available for any use; including profit making ventures. Additionally, if rights holders were to come forward and establish rightful claims, they would receive no compensation for past use. Further use of these works would be up to the rights holders.
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That combination is ripe for abuse, especially when you consider it would be EU-wide. Any tiny outfit anywhere in the EU could 'mistakenly' consider major works from another country to be orphaned and make a quick buck off them before the foreign authors/publishers find out and put a stop to it, with no recompense.
The aim of this is to make works available to the public. That is why libraries exist, so having national libraries take the lead makes sense to me.