On 2 July 2012 14:09, Andrew West <andrewcwest(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2 July 2012 13:52, geni <geniice(a)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certain unpublished, pseudonymous and anonymous very old works, with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.
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geni