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Originally Posted by crossi
I believe orphaned money and property reverts to the state after a certain amount of time if no claimants step forward. Or so I've heard. If bank accounts with thousands of dollars in them or houses worth thousands can be claimed and sold by the state why do they make it so hard to claim a book right that was of so little value that the publisher and the heirs of whoever wrote it just forgot about it? The copyright laws are ridiculous.
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Well, a lot of this stuff is a result of small things like the 2nd World War, and other conflicts, in which quite a few people died, including many of their immediate heirs .....
There is the possibility that other things were, and remained so for quite a while, more pressing ?
And, just quickly - if your statement re: copyright concerns the principle, rather than specific regulations/formats ...... do you also find it ridiculous that you get a wage, or receive payment for, your work ?
And is your right to that covered by law ?
Just a thought ....