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EU considering "orphan works" legislation
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Aimed at libraries, and (on the short amount of detail available) sounds reasonable.
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There are old movies rotting away in warehouses because they are in copyright limbo. Orphan works legislation would allow people to come in and restore them.
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I really hope that legislation comes to pass. Now if only the U.S. could be as sensible.
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Sounds good, only I'd make these works available for any use; including profit making ventures. Additionally, if rights holders were to come forward and establish rightful claims, they would receive no compensation for past use. Further use of these works would be up to the rights holders.
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I have no problem with the nonprofit approach, as long as it isn't nonprofit for all time. There are some good for-profit takes on public domain stuff. Maybe have it be where if it is orphaned, it is for PD non profit only until the copyright would have ordinarily expired.
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The aim of this is to make works available to the public. That is why libraries exist, so having national libraries take the lead makes sense to me. |
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That's something that needs to be figured out anyway. If something is done to where for profit can happen when the orphan is able to fully enter public domain (when copyright expires completely), then that doesn't come into play, because at that point the copyright holder, really no longer holds it. Still, the entire time it is deemed an orphan, it is an issue.
According to the article linked in the OP, if the copyright holder shows up, and is verified, the copyright holder has the ability to end the orphan status, and claim compensation if desired. That can be scary, even though the next paragraph mentions Quote:
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This sounds like a very good idea. Except for the non-profit part of it. Digitizing/restauration/general clean-up costs time and money, and we live in a world where money talks very loudly and charity and public good talks very, very quiet. Profit is a very strong reason to undertake such projects as these.
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As far as I'm concerned, orphaned works should be fair game for all uses - nonprofit and profit.
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I don't think owners of orphaned works are due compensation. If they were interested in the work at all it wouldn't have been orphaned. They had plenty of time to register a copyright and or get it published and or release it to the public or whatever. If they want to stop sales fine, but compensation for something lost and ignored for decades no.
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1 769 821 documents 353 689 books, 42 690 maps, 25 945 manuscripts, 489 741 images, 846 542 periodicals, 9 107 scores, 2 107 sound recordings They seem to be happy to do it without making a profit, and I imagine they would jump on the orphan works very quickly. Besides, the legislation doesn't prevent the institution making money from the orphan works, as long as all that money is used to pay for the scanning and other costs. |
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