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Originally Posted by murraypaul
The current stats on Gallica (the digital side of the French National Library) are:
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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.
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This is the national library - they have their fundings from elsewhere. Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg are mentioned - How many errors are there in Gutenberg files? How many articles on wikipedia needs to be updated and expanded? Could there be errors on Wikipedia that are not detected? I'd say it's likely.
I'm not saying that it's not good enough, I'm simply saying that orphaned books could benefit from proper treatment. Making profits of it could encourage independent publishers to do some of the work for digitizing. If the works owner claims his/her rights, the worst things thay could happen is that he/she gets, for free, a digital version of the book/film/whatever and can sell legitimate copies of it.