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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This does seem very odd. 11 years isn't very long at all.
I think orphan works legislation would be more appropriately applied to (say) works first published 50 years ago or more, and where the book is now out of print and the last printing was more than 20 years ago.
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The internet has produced a lot of orphan works, though. If you go into the wayback machine, you can probably find a lot of things that were abandoned by their creators- fanmade RPG supplements, stories, stuff like that. I've got a hunch that setting it for 2001 was done to help deal with some of those early orphan e-works.