[Wikisource-l] Cool tool that lets you check for copyright renewals on books

[Yann Forget]

Hello,

That's will probably interest poeple from Wikisource.
(from Commons and en.wp lists).

Regards,

Yann

David Gerard wrote:

This is a new, neat tool that helps you find whether certain US
published books are out of copyright even if they are published after
1923. As most copyright savvy people know, there was a period of time
after that in which copyrights had to be officially renewed to stay
valid, meaning that a lot of works published after that time are
officially in the public domain in the United States. But these are
hard to find, since renewal notices are hard to peruse and in many
cases not machine-searchable at all.

But no longer! Stanford has created a Copyright Renewal Database,
making it quite easy to check if any book published first in the U.S.
between 1923 and 1963 are in the public domain. It could potentially
clear up copyright ambiguities for certain things taken from these
works.

http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/

FF