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Originally Posted by Ninjalawyer
TL;DR: Long copyright makes some books hard to find, news at 11.
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It's really just another pass at the old orphan works issue.
First, you need to find the licensed copyright holder; which is rarely the author, given the length of most tradpub contracts, that are effectively rights sales rather than leases. That can be very expensive, which is why Google and the various goverment orphan work "land grabs" are structured as opt-outs, rather than opt-ins.