FYI--book copyrights ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Fisher" <sdgenweb@yahoo.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Copyright Renewal Search Engine Project Gutenberg has the full text of the copyright renewals from 1950 to 1977 on-line. You can download the entire file and search it from your favorite word processor. The file is 32 Megs (10 Megs zipped): http://gutenberg.org/etext/11800 --- Robert Sullivan <rsullivan@sals.edu> wrote: > Can't tell if the book you want to put online is in > the public domain? > Michael Lesk, a professor at the Rutgers School of > Communication, > Information and Library Studies, has created a form > which searches U. S. > copyright renewal records. If a book published > between 1923 and 1963 is > in the file, it is still under copyright. More > details are available > at: > > http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html > > Bob Sullivan <rsullivan@sals.edu> > Schenectady County Public Library (NY) > <http://www.scpl.org/> > Schenectady Digital History Archive > <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail