On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Caroline Ford caroline.ford.work@googlemail.com wrote:
If anything we may gain from the orphan works clause. The BJP is running a campaign against this as it thinks that photos without metatags will be stolen.
I don't think there will be much gain for Commons - the amount of research that is required is probably too much for volunteers to do on a one-by-one base, and where the research has been done by others, the copyright will fall to them rather than reverting to the public domain.