On 2 July 2012 14:09, Andrew West <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 July 2012 13:52, geni <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Orphan works stuff remains "the little guy shouldn't have >> copyright" but is of no actual interest to us. > > The government’s intention "To reduce anomalously long copyright for > certain unpublished, pseudonymous and anonymous very old works, with > the consequence that a number of these works will cease to be in > copyright rather than being orphan works." > (http://www.ipo.gov.uk/response-2011-copyright.pdf p.11) should be of > great interest to us I would have thought.
Not really. Their approach appears to be that you pay money into a fund that will pay out if an author is every found. Nothing that looks like a free license. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
