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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
So for anything that has been written, in order to reproduce it, you have to provide a clear, unbroken line of ownership. If you can't, you can't contract the rights to make a copy, or use it in a variant of the work.
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No, an orphan clause solves that. Copyright holders will register the works they hold every x number of years in a federal register. Failure to do so will place the works in question in the public domain.