>>>>> Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SD) wrote: >SD> It means that there is a serious problem of "orphan works", where rare >SD> and valuable films from the 1920s and earlier are rapidly decaying >SD> into an unusable powder because nobody dares copy them lest the >SD> unknown copyright owners descend like vultures and sue you for >SD> copyright infringement *after* you've done the hard work of restoring >SD> our cultural heritage.
Our (Dutch) copyright law has a specific exemption for this particular case for libraries, museums and archives. -- Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
