(publishingperspectives.com): The issue of orphan books –- those books with no clear copyright holder –- continues to vex digitization efforts across the globe. In Europe, it’s a particularly contentious issue, so much so that the European Commission vowed to look into the issue beginning last year. Among its first steps has been to determine the size of the problem and last month it issued a report estimating there are some three million orphan books among member states.
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