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Abandoned Art and the Orphan Works Debate

Is Artwork about to be Stolen? Every year, Orphan Works legislation gets introduced but not passed in Congress.Because economic matters take priority over less urgent matters like copyright issues, the legislation is likely to cycle through Congress without being voted on for years to come. An orphan work is a copyrighted piece of work, but the artist"s identity is...