On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 06:38:22AM -0500, NWolcott wrote:

In processing a request for copyright clearance for non-renewed copyrights, the PG rules require searching manually the renewal records for the 3 years surrounding the date of expiration for the author, title, publisher, etc. This can be a time consuming process if it is eventually found to have been renewed.

I have found the following Rutgers site a quick way of determining if a book has been renewed, thus sparing much effort:

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html

This uses approximately the same data as our eBook #11800. Yes, it's useful, and valid for the time dates & content types it covers for our "Rule 6" clearances. -- Greg

A quick search on names titles etc will stop you from wasting a lot of time. I don't think it covers magazines.

For example a quick search on Frank Harris revealed that all of his major works have been renewed.

Likewise Albert Payson Terhune

But Margaret Armstrong "Trelawney" showed no renewal, so a manual search is now being done to clear this for PG.

nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu

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