At 2:48 AM -0500 1/20/2003, Scott Holder wrote: >As far as I know, in the case where the copyright holder truly doesn't >exist any longer and wasn't just bought by someone else (thereby >transferring the copyrights in most cases), it would then be legal to >distribute it.
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