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The problem of orphan works is one of the main issues in modern copyright law (or we should say droit d'auteur because law of Continental Europe is much more concentrated on an author and his/her rights than on the problem of copying). Works labeled as orphan cannot be popularized because they are protected by law for seventy years from the moment of an author's death. The problem is that we do not know who the author is or what happened to him/her, if s/he is alive or not or who the heir apparents are and we cann...