On a non-spam-related note, would it be possible to add these 2 intellectual property fields to the librarian mode on Open Library: Copyright status & Copyright evidence?
I don't think the general public would want to see these on the basic edits page, but they would be extremely useful to those of us gathering copyright status evidence for certain 1923-63 books published in the US. Example options for the Copyright Status field might be: - not yet researched *(a good default for 1923+ published works in the US) * - public domain *(a good default for pre-1923 published works in the US) * - copyright owned by organization - copyright owned by individual - orphan work The Copyright Evidence field would probably need to be a textarea field. It could include help text that gives an example, such as: "Physical copy has no visible notice of copyright symbol or wording and stated publication information is 1907 in the USA." or "©House of the Church of the Brethren (A130150). Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1954 - Page 94. http://www.archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig381lib). However, no evidence of renewal found in Stanford or LC renewal databases." Apologies if I am asking for difficult things! I enjoy OpenLibrary very much and wanted to contribute a few ideas that could lead to even more crowd-sourcing. Appreciative of your excellent work on this open access project, ~Adelle Frank
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