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Old 04-03-2012, 01:03 AM   #91
bill_mchale
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Sounds like our current system with different entities having different rights with formats and distribution over a single work. How would you go about changing this?
No, its nothing like the current system. In the current system having different entities holding different rights is negotiated. If I write a novel, I can grant all or some of the rights to a publisher. Further at the end of any contract period, the rights will revert to me. It is like the fact that with the current life +70 copyright period that you often times have multiple parties holding a share of the copyright, some of whom might prove impossible to find or might hold up publication despite the desires of the majority of rights holders.

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