Thread: EU considering "orphan works" legislation
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Old 06-12-2012, 09:24 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
Well, one reason to allow for profit uses would be getting these orphaned works back into circulation. Nobody will print something if they can't make even a little off it.
Project Guttenberg, Wikipedia, Open Street Map - Lots of free crowd sourced stuff nowadays.
No reason why OrphanedWorks.org couldn't work, crowd source the creation/editing of the title the government/libraries have provided.
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