orphan works

基本解释

The original draft settlement would have given Google sole authority over "orphan works", or out-of-print books whose copyright holder cannot be found.
在和解协议初稿中，Google独家享有处理“孤儿作品”（译注：orphan works，孤儿作品是指享有版权但很难、甚至不能找到其版权主体的作品）以及无法找到版权主人的绝版图书的权力。
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.
美国国会，欧盟紧随其后，将修改关于孤儿作品的规定，特别要修改版权侵犯中，所采用的严格责任原则。
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《独角兽之路——濒危一族》中，迈克尔·杰克逊将为片中的孤儿海员配音。这位海员在片中会和一位孤独的富家女及一群濒危动物一起拯救地球。

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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