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Originally Posted by norway1456
This sounds like a very good idea. Except for the non-profit part of it. Digitizing/restauration/general clean-up costs time and money, and we live in a world where money talks very loudly and charity and public good talks very, very quiet. Profit is a very strong reason to undertake such projects as these.
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The current stats on Gallica (the digital side of the French National Library) are:
1 769 821 documents
353 689 books,
42 690 maps,
25 945 manuscripts,
489 741 images,
846 542 periodicals,
9 107 scores,
2 107 sound recordings
They seem to be happy to do it without making a profit, and I imagine they would jump on the orphan works very quickly.
Besides, the legislation doesn't prevent the institution making money from the orphan works, as long as all that money is used to pay for the scanning and other costs.