Re: copyright renewal

From: Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:02:41 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Nick Smith <nsmith[_at_]nla.gov.au> wrote:
>
> Hi, a while ago on CNI-copyright, I think someone mentioned a very
> interesting statistic that (some time ago obviously), when the
> initial 28 year copyright term was up, only a small percentage
> bothered to renew for the second 28 year period (and of course,
> copyright owners had to be sufficiently interested in copyright
> protection to register it in the first place; no shopping lists
> here...)
>
> Can anyone recall this and do they have a citation for it?

The Copyright Office estimates that only about 15% of works published during 1923-1963 were ever renewed. The actual percentage varies with the type of work involved. This estimate is based on a study the Copyright Office conduct in the 1961. The report is called the 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights.

Stephen Fishman
<sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>

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