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Anyone know what happened to the 2015 Orphan Works proposal by the US Copyright Office?

https://www.copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pd...



Basically, a lot of opposition--and not by the people you might assume. Disney doesn't care; they're not going to let their copyrights lapse by accident. But a number of organizations that represent individual content creators, such as photographers, are concerned that upon lapse of copyright, large companies will make a minimal effort to contact the copyright holder or estate, call it a day, and then profit from the work.




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