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Can I use an abandoned copyright?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

If a work was registered during a period that required renewal (in the US, 1923-1963) but was not renewed, protection has expired and the work is in the public domain.

If a work is likely to be protected but the rightsholder cannot be identified or located, the material is considered an "orphan work." There is currently no law allowing the unlicensed use of orphan works: you can try for years to locate and contact the rightsholder, but if you use the material without their permission and they magically crawl out of the woodwork, you are as guilty of infringement as you would have been had you not attempted to contact them at all, and they can sue you for up to $150,000 per infringement even if real damages were nowhere near that.

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