The 20' By 20' Room has a post called "Saving Orphaned RPGs".
The US Copyright Office is looking into the need for a system to clear the rights for orphaned copyrighted works with no visible rightsholder. They want public comment, since they're trying to figure out what the pros and cons are of various potential courses of action with regard to orphaned works. As Rodger points out, there's a ton of this kind of thing in the RPG field. If you're a creator or a fan of an orphaned RPG -- not one that the rightsholders won't publish, but one for which the rightsholders are unknown -- it might be worth your while to submit a comment according to the process outlined.
This is not just for RPGs, but for any kind of work with no clear ownership. Any authors reading this may well have some comments on how copyright law might be modified – or not.
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