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Old 10-12-2010, 10:19 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald View Post
You claim to be a lawyer yet you advocate breaking the law. It keeps getting better and better.
LF, you grew up in the civil rights era. Are you unaware that attorneys have advocated breaking the law?

Article 8, Section 8 of the Constitution implies (when it states that copyrights shall be for a limited time only) that there exists a public policy that written works should enter the public domain. I have been consistent in urging Gannett to negotiate with known rights holders.

The problem with orphan works is that there are no known rights holders. This suggests to me that it would be consistent with public policy to make the books again available to the public, while keeping in reserve royalty payments for unknown rights holders who may appear in the future.
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