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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I totally misunderstood you then, but why should the author have to go to the trouble or expense to prove the copyright is still valid.
Not to mention the extra people that would need to be employed just for that purpose.
Excuse me if I don't think books as a whole are worth that thousands of dollars of expenses. You do realize there are at least 1 million books published a year.
Can someone name me one "orphaned book" that would be worth it?
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I could probably make a case for a number of books published as works for hire by companies that have now gone bust so the rights are definitely orphaned. These would include old technical manuals etc and there is no reason (apart from copyright itself) not to release them to the public domain.
So these have a copyright term of 95 years from publication with absolutely zero chance of them being available legally until then.