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Copyright README
From: David Farber <dfarber () cs cmu edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:15:13 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org> Date: September 30, 2007 12:22:41 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Copyright README From the README at http://bulk.resource.org/copyright/: This directory contains raw data from the U.S. Copyright Office of the Library of Congress. Related to this directory are two communications, one to the U.S. Copyright Office, the other a response from the Library of Congress, which functions as the commercial agent for the Copyright Office: http://public.resource.org/letter_to_peters.html http://www.loc.gov/blog/?p=187 While the Copyright Office maintains a record-oriented interface, that does not provide adequate facilities to meet their public access obligations. This directory, accessible via FTP and HTTP, contains 3 sub-directories: 1. The "code" directory contains PERL code from 2000 which is used to convert MARC-format records into XML. 2. The "raw" directory contains the bulk database product as sold by the Library of Commerce as of the year 2000. 3. The "hids" directory contains all bulk data from 1978 to the present. The record-oriented interface maintained by the Copyright Office is limited to interactive keyword searches. Their system identifies each record with a unique Hidden ID (HID). This directory thus contains all 21 million of those records sorted in HID order, as well as a per-HID retrieval utility. In posting these data, we rely partly on voicemail from the Honorable Marybeth Peters, the U.S. Register of Copyrights received Fri Sep 21 16:17:02 PDT 2007 in response to the above-mentioned letter, in which Ms. Peters states that "I think our records should be available to the public. Certainly there's no copyright in any of the copyright records. Certainly they're public records and they should be openly available." ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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