Directive 2012/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the… Article 5

End of orphan work status

Article 5

Member States shall ensure that a rightholder in a work or phonogram considered to be an orphan work has, at any time, the possibility of putting an end to the orphan work status in so far as his rights are concerned.

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