Re: Orphan Copyrights

>The copyright owner then has five years within which to claim his or her
>royalties. After five years, the collective society can disburse the monies to
>its members.

This is the second part of my reason for distrusting the Canadian collectives and their shills, who want unpublished works covered by a collective regime: Not only do certain heirs want to make money off something THEY didn't write, they want to make money off something their GRANDMOTHER didn't write!

>If the US were to adopt a similar mechanism to deal with unlocatable
>copyright owners I would suggest that after a term of years the money be placed in an
>appropriate fund that funds new works of authorship, e.g., The National
>Endowment for the Arts.

I think it should be held, with interest, for the owner to claim until the term of copyright expires, or the payer to reclaim if the owner does not. That is, if such rights are to be managed by Copyborgs in the first place. Received on Sat Nov 22 2003 - 02:30:23 GMT