[Wikimedia-l] Copyright information not digitised?

[Mark]

While I'm also interested in looking into this, for *images* in 
particular I think it's quite difficult. They're often used in books and 
journals by permission of the photographer, so the fact that the 
book/journal's copyright wasn't renewed doesn't necessarily mean the 
photographs in the book/journal are now public domain. You'd also have 
to check that the photographer didn't separately register/renew a 
copyright on the photo. And, since photos don't typically have 
convenient names or IDs to use for lookup, it can be pretty hard to check.

-Mark


On 6/24/12 8:22 AM, Eddie Erhart wrote:
> 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 at 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 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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