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to Sil_liS: "Why would you (or the author in general) need to be asked to do this instead of just doing it?"
Because you don't know, what the intentions of the author are. He is still the owner of his work.
to apbschmitz: "I could then be asked if I intended to reclaim the rights from the original publisher and republish myself."
I think this is a way of reactivating a book and selling it a second time. When the CD was introduced many decades ago, the music companies started relaunching the back catalogue of analog recorded music as CDs at a reduced price. This could be a model for printend books as well (becoming ebooks for 2,99 $).
So I would say, that pirating orphaned books without agreement of the owner is not OK (well, if he agrees, the book is not pirated).
George
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