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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