[Foundation-l] Building The Great Monument of Bureaucracy

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/22/2009 10:48:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
smolensk at eunet.rs writes:


> 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.>>

Heirs do not necessarily get any benefit from copyrighted works of their 
ancestors.  You *may* but only if the work has been re-registered.  I think 
what you mean is, if the work was still properly copyrighted then they would 
get royalties, but not all works of authors of unknown death date are still 
under copyright protection.  Just some.