On 1/23/09, TSG <tglassey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin Principal Engineer Corporate Standardization (US) SISA _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf