[Wikimedia-l] Copyright information not digitised?

[Kim Bruning]

According to:
	http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120330/12402418305/why-missing-20th-century-books-is-even-worse-than-it-seems.shtml

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