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Hellmark · 01-05-2011, 10:44 AM

While personally I do think the modern system of copyright automatically being applied when it is in a fixed form, some sort of registration would be nice. Something to where there is a central database that people can add their info to, so orphaned works would be less of a problem.

01-05-2011, 10:44 AM	#77
Hellmark Wizard Posts: 2,592 Karma: 4290425 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Foristell, Missouri, USA Device: Nokia N800, PRS-505, Nook STR Glowlight, Kindle 3, Kobo Libra 2	While personally I do think the modern system of copyright automatically being applied when it is in a fixed form, some sort of registration would be nice. Something to where there is a central database that people can add their info to, so orphaned works would be less of a problem.