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This article is from the Anime
Music FAQ, by Ru Igarashi with numerous contributions by
others.
31 If The Rights Holders Don'T Act, Don'T They Lose Their Rights?
No, not at all. Copyright laws protect a work for many decades
regardless of whether the rights holder ever acted. The rights
holder can in fact take action at just about any time on any of
many infractions, though there can be some limits on how long ago
a violation can be sued for.
The two main ways of losing the rights, or the for the work to
enter the "public domain", is a) the passage of time past the
duration stipulated by law (many decades), or b) the rights holder
explicitly stipulating the the rights have been relinquished into
the public domain.
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