Re: orphans, doing something (was what are orphan works?)

Erica Frank wrote:
> 
> And EVERYONE wants something useful out of this. Everyone likes the
> idea of online archives of obscure or otherwise unavailable materials.
> (Some people prefer that all that material is opt-in, rather than
> opt-out--but everyone hopes lots of people opt in.)

This is an overgeneralisation. Anyone who makes a living by selling new 
material is going to be doing their damndest to limit public access to 
the vast amounts of older, cheaper, sometimes better material that they 
don't control. This is why traditional publishers are fighting so hard 
against any loosening of copyright, in fact or in law. If you control 
supply, you control price.

Jon.


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