[Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

[Nikola Smolenski]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> At some point we need to be able to say to our users: "We have a high 
> degree of confidence that this [specific] material is free, but these 
> difficulties exist: ... Use it at your own risk."

There is this idea of having copyright insurance. There are useful works 
published long ago and never republished, whose authors' whereabouts are 
completely unknown. Digitize them and publish them on the Internet, but 
insure them, so that if heirs ever appear a reasonable royalty may be 
paid to them.