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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
if a book is still in print, that could count as an automatic renewal. If there is a new edition, a renewal for the initial copyright, something like that. What about this: a ten year span, renewable indefinitely by the author but only once by his heirs?
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But who will keep track of whether or not a book is in print?
For books, possibly movies, most likely music, filing copyrights should be theoretically as simple as sending your file to a computer for analysis, you will also have to provide a proper email address, one that you intend to keep for the length of time that your copyright will be.
Then X number of years down the line, Copyrighter5000 will send you an email asking if you would like to have your copyright extended for another X number of years.
If you have a physical good that needs copyright, well that will cost extra of course.
Some news from that Arrow Project,
"In her opening speech Commissioner Kroes commended ARROW as a unique collaboration of 29 organisations representing all stakeholders. She said that her vision is that One search in ARROW should be all that it is needed to determine the copyright status of cultural works in Europe. If it were embedded in the forthcoming Directive on orphan works, ARROW could become the official portal in Europe where you can find essential rights information and do automated searches of rightholders and copyrights. She concluded that ARROW’s potential was huge and that it was leading the way to show how stakeholders can work together towards the digital future."
http://www.arrow-net.eu/sites/defaul...%20Results.pdf
It sounds like a simple full text search with copyright metadata?