On 1/23/09, TSG <tglassey(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net> wrote:
Contreras, Jorge wrote:
Why not just ask them???. All authors have a responsibility to maintain
their contact info, otherwise it is easily argued that they abandoned their
claims in that IP.
Were it to be that simple. Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way.
There are lots of cases in the music industry and in the publishing
industry where an author has simply disappeared, and yet copyright
still exists. Unless the author can be located, a lot of works cannot
be republished, because the copyright owner cannot be found to give
permission.
--
Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin
Principal Engineer
Corporate Standardization (US)
SISA
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