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Originally Posted by crossi
I wish there WAS a registry of current copyright holders. It would make finding the rightsholder of orphaned works much easier. Right now it often takes a legal department a long time to track down who can autherize publication 50 years after the author has died and 70 years since he last had contact with a publisher. A registry would be wonderful. There are so many books that no one knows who owns them anymore including the owners.
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I totally agree. It's as least as bad, if not worse, trying to identify the copyright holder of a piece of music, too.