Clint Chaplin wrote:
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.
You mean under new terms Clint? The IETF still has the rights to
republish that work and derivatives under the original submission
agreement and that right extends in perpetuity. The problem is that the
Trust wants to convert this IP Library to something it can license for
money, and this is contrary to all of the RFC2026 submissions.
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