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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard?
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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:22:21 -0800
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William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> writes:

> Patrick Scheible <kkt@zipcon.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>> Along with the sheer amount of time works are protected, the would-be
>> licenser must determine whether authors are still alive and if not
>> when they died and who their literary executors are.  Again, trivial if
>> it's Disney and probably easy if it's Al Jolson, but if you just want to
>> make a legal copy of a borrowed book from a little-known author who
>> was last in print in the 1920s, it's extremely difficult to determine.
>
> There's a short cut for such early works. Just check the Copyright Office
> for a renewal. If there was no renewal, the copyright lapsed. End of story.

Go to your university library, ask them to pull the Catalog of Copyright
Entries out of storage, search through annual volumes from
when the book was published in the 1920s until 1978.  Some shortcut.

Note that if the work was registered after 1964, renewals have been
automatic so the copyright is known to still be in effect, but it will
probably not be much help locating the copyright holder to ask
permission.

Some information regarding copyright is only recorded in the Copyright
Office card file in Washington.  Go there, or pay the Copyright Office
staff to search it.

-- Patrick