On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:23:47PM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
Greg Newby writes:
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:57:11AM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
... How many PD books have you found in Google Book Search that were not visible? Did you report them to Google? If not, some of the blame falls on _your_ shoulders.
How is such notification done?
Well, when I've been doing book searches at Google, and it comes up with a book that doesn't say that it was provided by a publisher, and the book information claims it was copyrighted before 1923, or I can find the copyright in a snippet, I use Google's feeback link to report that the book is incorrectly flagged as being in copyright so that they will fix the status. In one case, they fixed it after a 4-5 email exchange. In other cases, they simply told me that they were aware that some books were incorrectly identified as in copyright.
Do they consider 1923 as a cutoff date (per US law)? Or do they look to 1868 or something similar as a cutoff, as an attempt to only say "public domain" if it's defensibly for the entire world? -- Greg