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Originally Posted by Harmon
Or maybe the law should be that any work not available for sale for a set period of time enters the public domain automatically. There are evidently many works that aren't orphaned, but aren't available because there's no profit in it for the owners. And this would obviate the need for registration.
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That would be dangerous, in my view. Copyright protection gives the important right
not to publish, as well as the right to publish. Removal of that right has important privacy implications, when it comes to having the right to decline to publish private diaries, for example.