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Originally Posted by crossi
I don't think owners of orphaned works are due compensation. If they were interested in the work at all it wouldn't have been orphaned. They had plenty of time to register a copyright and or get it published and or release it to the public or whatever. If they want to stop sales fine, but compensation for something lost and ignored for decades no.
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From what I understand, the Berne Convention requires works to be automatically copyrighted without needing registration, so the EU has no copyright registration.