[Web4lib] A Collection Analysis of the 5 Google Print forLibraries participants

[Jim Campbell]

There is a searchable database of the 7% at
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html
It's based on data Carnegie Mellon compiled for the Million Books Project.

- Jim Campbell
Campbell at Virginia.edu
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sandra Bostian
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:20 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] A Collection Analysis of the 5 Google 
> Print forLibraries participants
> 
> One thing of interest that I found in a footnote in Peter 
> Hirtle's excellent copyright chart is that for books in the 
> era requiring renewal (through 1963, I believe), only about 
> 7% were renewed. That makes 93% public domain. That's a 
> rather staggering figure. While that doesn't address the 
> later stuff (still the bigger part), it is a rather 
> substantial loophole. I suspect noone's doing the footwork to 
> determine which ones those 7% are, though.
> 
> http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain
> .htm#Footnote_7
> 
> Sandy Bostian
> 
> >>> Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> 09/15/05 4:07 PM >>>
> Thanks, Bernie -- ask a librarian (or a group of them) and ye 
> shall receive, eh? This article shows that the majority of 
> the works in the library collects are NOT public domain:
> 
> "Approximately half of the print books in the combined Google 
> 5 collection were published after 1974. Almost three-quarters 
> were published after the Second World War. Using the year 
> 1923 as a rough break-off point between materials that are 
> out of copyright and materials that are in copyright [16 
> <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html#16>
], more than 80 percent of the materials in the Google 5 > collections /are
still in copyright/."
> 
> It doesn't (and probably can't) address the orphan works 
> issue, but having sat through the West Coast hearings on 
> orphan works it's pretty clear that in this country, at 
> least, it is 1) difficult to determine if works are orphaned 
> 2) and being orphaned does not mean that they are no longer 
> protected by copyright law.
> 
> kc
> 
> Sloan, Bernie wrote:
> 
> >An interesting piece from the September issue of D-Lib Magazine.
> >
> >The authors analyzed the collections of the "Google 5" 
> libraries using 
> >WorldCat.
> >
> >>From the article:
> >
> >Questions addressed include: 
> >
> >* Coverage: What proportion of the system-wide print book collection 
> >will GPLP potentially cover? What is the degree of holdings overlap 
> >across the print book collections of the five participating 
> libraries?
> >* Language: What is the distribution of languages associated 
> with the 
> >print books held by the GPLP libraries? Which languages are 
> predominant?
> >
> >* Copyright: What proportion of the GPLP libraries' print 
> book holdings 
> >are out of copyright?
> >* Works: How many distinct works are represented in the 
> holdings of the 
> >GPLP libraries? How does a focus on works impact coverage 
> and holdings 
> >overlap?
> >* Convergence: What are the effects on coverage of using a different 
> >set of five libraries? What are the effects of adding the 
> holdings of 
> >additional libraries to those of the GPLP libraries, and how 
> do these 
> >effects vary by library type
> >
> >Full text at:
> >
> >http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html
> >
> >Bernie Sloan
> >Senior Information Systems Consultant
> >Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
> >616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
> >Champaign, IL  61820-5752
> >
> >Phone: (217) 333-4895
> >Fax:   (217) 265-0454
> >E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
> >
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