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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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There is no register of copyrighted material, but before one tries to digitize something and sells it as orphaned, one will make sure that the likelyhood of an owner claiming the rights is minimal. If an owner steps forward, the person/company doing the digitizing will not only loose the income from the sales of the orphaned work, but the legitimate owner could use the digitized version for free, sell it and make money for free of these files. Isn't that compensation enough?
From this, I would assume, that the risk of fraud of copyrighted material under this legislation is minimal. Or am I just naive?