thank you for clarifying. i read mark simon's article and started freaking out, because i've been putting my work on blogs and websites for years, but you really made everything crystal clear and really there is nothing to worry about.

"The basics are, well, pretty basic. An orphaned work is a work for which no legitimate rights-holder can be found. If the legitimate rights-holder resurfaces, it is not an orphaned work any more. Plain and simple."

that there is pretty much the big thing that anybody needs to know about this whole situation.

thanks again for a good (and correct) description.