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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Of course, with orphaned works, the copyright holders likely don't even know that they hold the copyright, they just vaguely remember that Great Uncle John was a writer especially if Great Uncle John was a mid tier author who didn't make a mint.
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Originally Posted by lumpynose
I was thinking about it because there are times when you can see a descendant renewing copyrights when the books are unlikely to still be popular, and I was thinking that perhaps it's because the stories might be useful for the studios.
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Copyrights aren't renewed (anymore). Ever since the Berne Convention, in nearly all countries they're automatically applied until Life+50/70:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...yright_lengths
In reality, this lasts more than 100+ years.
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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Maybe if someone donated millions to Project Gutenberg they could mount a campaign to get the word out about the potential advantages of CC-SA, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Note: Project Gutenberg works on and releases Public Domain material... not Creative Commons.
Side Note: I'm a huge proponent of CC licensing and getting books as open as possible. (Most of the Non-Fiction books I work on are variants of CC-BY.)
Back in 2017, we also had a large CC/Public Domain/Copyright discussion:
"How to Incorporate Pic Attribute for CC lic"
with links to other articles as well. Even linking to articles discussing the potential unenforceability of the more open variants, like CC0.