Copyright length listed by country

Note that it varies widely. For instance, France is basically 85 years after the death of the author for anything and then there are lots of other stipulations in their copyright law. Most countries have something like the US's insanity for copyright rules/details by type of publication/copyright/age of publication/author's death, so it's nitty-gritty for each country. If we have one particular country with a bunch of books to retain, then we can research the laws and see what can work!

 

 

 

Others fighting (or at least considering to fight) to digitize in-copyright, out-of-print works.

 

Version 3 of the copyright flowchart: Copyright workflow.JPG

 

copyright flowchart that is too complex for BB but is the right idea...  (posted 11/29/2007)

 

Circular 22 from the copyright Office: "How to investigate the copyright status of a work"  (posted 11/20/2007)

 

 

 

 

Why we all love (being) nerds: The OS folks and a bunch of others at libraries and other places are working on making a real copyright renewal database for everything and it looks like it's moving along swiftly. Apparently, the copyright records are terribly formatted, so they're not just working on the renewal database, but on cleaning the data and then (since searching is required) figuring out how to integrate it with BIP or a library catalog. Once this happens, investigating copyright will be "type, click, read." [yay!!]

 

Re Section 108 question.txt  The email from Lolly Gassway where she answers my question re: disposition of brittle pages

 

The Columbia University site has some useful policies about brittle book preservation at:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/brittle.html

 

Per Erich, FIU is digitizing-as-preservation and Reprographics operated on the same model, so we should be able to digitize all materials, and keep them in the dark files, and then print-on-demand from those scans as needed. This way we don't lose materials nor the quality of the materials. This is supported by the information here.

 

See:

Copyright and Preservation III. REPRISE--APPLYING THE ACT TO THE BRITTLE BOOKS PRESERVATION PROGRAM (from : Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution / by Robert L. Oakley. September 1990):

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/oakley/brittle.html

 

Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database

http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

 

Copyright Quick Guide (all you need to know for books published in the US in 2 pages and good quick reference for those published abroad!)

 

 

 

OPS-Copyright.pdf   this flow chart outlines more specifically what happens in the top oval of the chart Nancy and Matt created. Please pay careful attention to the assumptions. (November 16th version)

 

Wikipedia copyright chart by country (for help on works published outside of the US that need further investigation).

 

Posted 11/14/2007  copyright_action_items.pdf  The email from Matt Loving where he outlines several action items re: copyright, based on his interpretation of emails from Denise Troll Covey (AKA, the yellow email)

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