[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) ?


Hmmm, 
	http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120323/09045818223/public-domain-starves-while-copyright-office-struggles-to-modernize.shtml

	http://blogs.loc.gov/copyrightdigitization/2012/03/a-virtual-copyright-card-catalog-tell-us-what-you-think/

Apparantly this is current, recent, and crowd-sourcing would help.
OCR/Correcting a card catalogue is not very sexy though. <scratches
head>

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning