[rkomar]

Maybe I misunderstood the documents, but it looked like there was a one-time fee for the license, as well as a per book fee that is collected and held in case a legitimate rights holder appears. I was under the impression that the per book fee would be returned after eight years along with the one-time fee. Is that not true? Does the administration get to keep the per book fee if there is no rights holder?

I was also not trying to imply that the big IP corporations were republishing orphaned works. Instead, I meant that the "friction" keeping orphaned works out of the market was good for the big corporations because it meant less competition for them.