On 2 July 2012 14:09, Andrew West andrewcwest@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 July 2012 13:52, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Orphan works stuff remains "the little guy shouldn't have copyright" but is of no actual interest to us.
The government’s intention "To reduce anomalously long copyright for certain unpublished, pseudonymous and anonymous very old works, with the consequence that a number of these works will cease to be in copyright rather than being orphan works." (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2011-copyright.pdf p.11) should be of great interest to us I would have thought.
Not really. Their approach appears to be that you pay money into a fund that will pay out if an author is every found. Nothing that looks like a free license.