Whoa, in 1958/59, only *seven *percent of the books and *eleven *percent of the journals were renewed? This may be obvious, but clarifying the copyright status of these works would be a huge benefit to editors looking for public domain image to illustrate Wikipedia articles... and that's not including the benefits to the Commons and Wikisource.
--Ed
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, John Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
There are scans of most of the relevant records, and the records for books are also transcribed by Project Gutenberg and searchable at a stanford uni website. See en.ws template PD-US-no-renewal. The scans need to be transcribed to increase accessibility. On Jun 24, 2012 3:50 AM, "Kim Bruning" kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
According to:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120330/12402418305/why-missing-20th-centu...
a lot of books have an uncertain copyright status, because the Copyright Office records have not been digitized yet.
Is this true? Would offering to help digitize these records fit in our mission (especially wrt WikiSource) ?
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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