orphan works

基本解釋

The original draft settlement would have given Google sole authority over "orphan works", or out-of-print books whose copyright holder cannot be found.
在和解協(xié)議初稿中，Google獨(dú)家享有處理“孤兒作品”（譯注：orphan works，孤兒作品是指享有版權(quán)但很難、甚至不能找到其版權(quán)主體的作品）以及無(wú)法找到版權(quán)主人的絕版圖書的權(quán)力。
The US Congress, followed by the EU, could change the rules about orphan works, and in particular about the strict liability that copyright infringement carries.
美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)，歐盟緊隨其后，將修改關(guān)于孤兒作品的規(guī)定，特別要修改版權(quán)侵犯中，所采用的嚴(yán)格責(zé)任原則。
In The Way of the Unicorn, The Endangered One, Jackson will do the voice of Sailor, an orphan who works with a lonely rich girl and a group of endangered animals to save the planet.
在《獨(dú)角獸之路——瀕危一族》中，邁克爾·杰克遜將為片中的孤兒海員配音。這位海員在片中會(huì)和一位孤獨(dú)的富家女及一群瀕危動(dòng)物一起拯救地球。

Should the settlement be cleared, it will permit Google non-exclusive rights to orphan works (those without an established writer) and will give it a 30 per cent cut of books sold via Google Books, both things that authors have agreed to.
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This compares with 83 of 291 drugs that were not granted orphan status but were also considered to be blockbusters, and this also works out to 29 percent.
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Unless ablation's backers can produce hard data showing how well it works, the procedure may continue to be a bit of an orphan.
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