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Old 06-25-2008, 03:50 AM   #1
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Copyright renewal records for US books online
I found the following information on BoingBoing today:

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A Google engineer has tracked down, munged and XMLified the copyright renewal notices for all the books the US Copyright Office knows about -- now there's a one-click way to discover if an old book is in the public domain (more or less) and who holds the copyright if it isn't.
So now you can find out if the US copyright of a book has been renewed by just one click.

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