On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Caroline Ford
<caroline.ford.work(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
If anything we may gain from the orphan works clause.
The BJP is running a
campaign against this as it thinks that photos without metatags will be
stolen.
I don't think there will be much gain for Commons - the amount of
research that is required is probably too much for volunteers to do on
a one-by-one base, and where the research has been done by others, the
copyright will fall to them rather than reverting to the public
domain.
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com