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> you can make a case before a court if you think a work has been abandoned That's an absurd amount of additional work to put on the legal system.
by admax88q 7y ago
> you can make a case before a court if you think a work has been abandoned
That's an absurd amount of additional work to put on the legal system.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoIt's actually not a bad idea if you tweak it a little bit. Move it out of the court system and into a computer in the copyright office. You upload a work and claim it's abandoned, they publish the claim and the copyright holder has e.g. six months to dispute the claim or it proves that you're right and the work becomes public domain. No human involvement, simple automatic process. Then works that have been registered/renewed in the last 14 years (or were created in the last 14 years) can't be claimed to be abandoned, so copyright holders that don't want to have to deal with policing abandonment claims can just register their old works instead.