Re: Request for information on Copyright Searches

From: Alesia Stein <alesia[_at_]northcountrynotes.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 06:15:40 -0500

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Diane Cabell <cabell[_at_]mama-tech.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jon Miller <jonmesq[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone ever search copyright status on the web? If so, how? Thanks,
>
> Not soup yet. You can search registrations in the US using fee-based
> services such as Dialog
>
> http://www.dialogweb.com/ and
>
> Thomson & Thomson
>
> http://ttdomino.thomson-thomson.com/www/products.NSF/NVISTITLE?OpenNavigator
>
> The Copyright Office is moving toward web-based access to registration
> records, but isn't there yet.
>
> LOCIS (Library of Congress Information System) at
>
> http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/rb.html
> (telnet access only at this time)
>
> Has anyone found better access?

Hello all... I'm a lurker on this list and have gotten some pretty good advice from doing so. :o)

Thanks much.

Finally found one thing I might be able to help on - the searching of LOC for copyright status.

I recently was looking for copyright records on an 1890 publication and came across this Database search at LOC's website. I had been there a few months ago and it was working yet -- still only had the telnet access.

Here are the URLs :

Database Availability:

( 4:35 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. Mon.-Fri.) 
( 4:35 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sat.) 
(11:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sun.) 

All times USA Eastern

Library of Congress Advanced Word Search Form http://lcweb.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/loc.html,ibm2.loc.gov,2210

For title and personal name searching only, use http://lcweb.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/loc2.html,ibm2.loc.gov,2210

For derived-key searching, use (author or title are known) http://lcweb.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?ACTION=INIT&FORM_HOST_PORT=/prod/www/data/z3950/loc3.html,ibm2.loc.gov,2210

I hope this helps someone - would be nice to pay back just a bit of some of the help everyone has given me - even if they didn't intend too.

Thanks again,

Alesia Stein
northcountrynotes.com
PSPiz
<alesia[_at_]northcountrynotes.com>

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