--- Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
> An easy example of a true 0% chance could be a
corporate
> publication from a company that has ceased to exist through
> bankruptcy.
Birgitte SB wrote:
I have never heard of something "defaulting"
to the Public
Domain because of the dissolution of the copyright owner. If
things "defaulted" the Public Domain we would not have the
existing situation with Orphan Works.
Many lawyers in Europe will tell you that the public domain
"doesn't exist". I wouldn't agree with this fundamentalist view.
But whether you call it public domain or not is more a play with
words than a practical reality. The problem with orphan works is
not the kind of situation Ray described above. The problem with
orphan works is that you *don't know* whether there is a copyright
holder that might sue you. In Ray's example you *know* that
nobody is around who can sue you, and so you can go ahead and
publish without any risk. These are two different situations.
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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