Honestly I'm not even that moved by the "orphaned works" argument anymore Unless the orphaned work in question contains the cure for cancer it's not that big a deal I can easily imagine authors deliberately "orphaning" their works and I think they have a right to
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Isn't a work being "orphaned" a function of people not knowing who the author is, though? You can't create that deliberately.
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It's kind of a blanket term they use for any situation where they can't *contact* the current rights holder
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The idea of the author being literally unknown for most books is absurd, it's on the byline of the title page
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