Thread: What If the Copyright Act of 1909 Was Still Law?
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Old 01-06-2011, 08:33 AM   #110
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
A great many more will be available from among in-print copyrighted works created in the computerized typesetting era. But books written in the 1930's through 1960's? Not so much, until such time, if ever, when they go under public domain.
Or we have a (preferably) legislative change that addresses the issue of orphaned works.

I also suspect Google has already caught a lot of those books in its scanning project.


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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I think you underestimate the legal costs of figuring out who owns the copyright in books long our of print....
Not really, I do recognize the costs and, unlike some people, recognize that they result in back catalog books costing more than $3 per book.

But I recognize the rights when they are attributable, think it's obvious that the back catalog will grow roughly in tandem with financial incentives, and think that once the orphan work issue is better resolved, availability will increase.
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