Obras no disponibles en el mercado y obras huérfanas en la Ley francesa 2012-287, de 1 de marzo de 2012

The paper analyses the content of French Act No. 2012-287, of 1 March 2012, on the digital exploitation of out-of-commerce twentieth-century books, in order to show the role of works unavailable on the market and of orphan works in the debate on the public domain. It reconstructs the European antece