Comments on: Stanford opens copyright renewal database http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/06/stanford-opens-copyright-renewal-database/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:49:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Branko Collin http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/06/stanford-opens-copyright-renewal-database/comment-page-1/#comment-303176 Branko Collin Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:56:57 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6392#comment-303176 Yes, public domain scanning groups such as Project Gutenberg are very much helped by their own efforts! Yes, public domain scanning groups such as Project Gutenberg are very much helped by their own efforts!

]]> By: Michael Dyck http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/04/06/stanford-opens-copyright-renewal-database/comment-page-1/#comment-301519 Michael Dyck Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:55:06 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6392#comment-301519 "Prior to this database, there had been no easy or inexpensive way to search renewals for this period." Actually, it's been easy and inexpensive for a few years now. The Stanford database is based on: 1) Distributed Proofreaders' transcriptions of renewal sections of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, which have been freely available since Project Gutenberg posted them on March 30, 2004; and 2) renewal entries from the Copyright Office's online database, which has been freely available since the 1980's, I think. Mike Lesk combined these two sources into a web-searchable database that's been around since June 2004: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html “Prior to this database, there had been no easy or inexpensive way to search renewals for this period.”

Actually, it’s been easy and inexpensive for a few years now. The Stanford database is based on:
1) Distributed Proofreaders’ transcriptions of renewal sections of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, which have been freely available since Project Gutenberg posted them on March 30, 2004; and
2) renewal entries from the Copyright Office’s online database, which has been freely available since the 1980’s, I think.

Mike Lesk combined these two sources into a web-searchable database that’s been around since June 2004: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html

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