Good reason to procrastinate - wait til October for easier copyright searching

The U.S. Copyright Office announced that eCO Search, will be available around October 1, 2005.  eCO search will offer keyword searching in a single database of about 20 million monographs, serials and recorded documents.

This is still only for post-1978 U.S. copyright registration records. At one of the orphan works roundtables, MaryBeth Peters mentioned that the Office has done a cost analysis to digitize, index and integrate pre-1978 records - about $35 million. She said the Office is considering a plan to do it in segments, and have a line item in the budget next year to work out such a plan.

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[Victor l Drake]

I was issued the U.S. copyrightfor ECO BIRD

VICTOR L. DRAKE

[Kaminator]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, as a comment, and am sorry if I have offended the protocol on this site. Need help in determining rights in compilations of test results published from 1948 to 1953 in a popular magazine. The magazine is popular now, but was first started in 1947. I am really just focused on the simple thing -- registration and renewal -- and, for this purpose the "underlying facts" issue re test results being mere data, and the "contributor" issue are not likely issues. The periodical has since been bought, sold, and bought again by large publishing concerns which have been religious in filing since then.