I'm not sure how many Rule6 submissions I've done, something between 10 and 20. They are a considerable amount of work, compared to a Rule1 submission, so much so that I won't be doing any more. It's simpler to establish that the author died more than 50 years ago (Canada being a life+50 country), and submit a scanset to DPCanada, with the finished book eventually either appearing in PGCanada or in the display site DPCanada is working on at www.fadedpage.com. For example, one of my Rule6 books was "Boy Ranchers in Death Valley", by Willard Baker, copyright by Cupples & Leon, published 1928. I had to search the renewal scans for the years 1955-1958, semi-annually, for author names "Willard" and "Baker" (two names for each semi-annual period in the four years), plus similar checks for both "Cupples" and "Leon", and another bunch of checks for the title words Boy, Ranchers, Death, and Valley. That's eight different keywords, two checks/year, four years. Do the math. These checks used to be relatively easy, but tedious, when the renewal page scans were hosted at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/, and each link led to a specific page. This changed 2-3 years ago when the renewal scans, while still linked from UPenn, became hosted by Google. Google lumped the scans for a given semi-annual period into a PDF. In doing so, I found that some PDF's contained cropped scans, where text was missing at any or all of the page's borders. I also encountered one PDF where the scans were assembled in reverse order. All in all, it became so difficult to find a specific renewal record page, that I gave up Rule6 submissions. I have no idea how the old Rule6 procedures compare to what Greg outlined in his recent message, but I get the impression that some of the checks are even more rigorous than they used to be. Al
-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Adcock Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 10:32 AM To: gbnewby@pglaf.org; 'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion' Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Rule 6 (Re: Copyright)
Wow, seems like a lot of work. Do you have any practical suggestions based on experiences from PG copyright clearance people about how many hours one might expect to take to research a Rule 6 clearance? I'm just trying to get a feel for this.
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