[Wikimedia-l] Copyright information not digitised?

[John Vandenberg]

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 at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
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