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Originally Posted by Mike L
Thanks for posting this. It's an interesting item.
One thing I am curious about is this statements:
I wonder who will remunerate the rights owners. Is it the organisation or individual (such as a museum) which is reproducing the work? That would seem to defeat the object. Or is the Intellectual Property Office? And if so, where does the money come from?
I'm only asking out of curiosity. I'm not trying to make a point.
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Thanks to the link given by trainboy we can answer that. It appears the rights owner gets the license fees paid for use. That seems very sensible to me. They are probably only going to have a small proportion of rights holders coming forward so the thing is not going to be a net cost to the taxpayer.