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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
The new law deals with works that were published as recently as 2001 -- i.e. 11 years ago.
It's not a duration issue.
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This does seem very odd. 11 years isn't very long at all.
I think orphan works legislation would be more appropriately applied to (say) works first published 50 years ago or more, and where the book is now out of print and the last printing was more than 20 years ago.