Aimed at libraries, and (on the short amount of detail available) sounds reasonable.
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Works granted orphan status would be then made public, through digitisation and only for non-profit purposes.
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Council representatives also agreed to a proposal by MEPs that a new article be inserted in the draft legislation to allow public institutions to generate some revenue from the use of an orphan work (e.g. goods sold in a museum shop). All of this revenue would have to be used to pay for the search and the digitisation process.
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Edit: It is actually quite heartening that such seemingly sensible solutions can still be proposed, that appear to benefit the public rather than corporations.