ryanfb / loeb-copyright

Collaborative assessment of the copyright status of volumes in the Loeb Classical Library

loeb-copyright

This repository is intended for collaborative assessment of the (primarily U.S.) copyright status of volumes in the Loeb Classical Library, with an eye to eventual inclusion of scans for out-of-copyright volumes in Loebolus and other projects.

Work will happen in loeb-copyright.csv, with the fields:

• identifier - e.g. L001
• author - ancient author
• title - human-readable title of the work
• year_published - year of first publication of this translation
• translator - name of the translator with most recent year of death
• translator_year_of_death - year of death of the translator with most recent year of death, blank if unknown, N/A if still living
• pre_1923 - true if year_published < 1923
• 1923-1963_copyright_not_renewed - true if 1923 <= year_published <= 1963 and verified that copyright was not renewed, false if verified that copyright was renewed, undefined if not checked/known
• in_loebolus - true if a PDF for this identifier is in Loebolus
• notes - free-form descriptive text for work notes
• urls - space-separated list of associated URLs (Internet Archive, Google Books, link to page with metadata about this translation, etc.)

A work is public domain in the U.S. if pre_1923 or 1923-1963_copyright_not_renewed are true.

Note that some Loebs were published with different works/editions/translations under the same "number". Outside of differentiating via title/year_published, you may want to note these cases in notes.

Helpful links:

• Stanford Copyright Renewal Database
• Online Books Page Copyright Registration and Renewal Records
• US Copyright Office Public Catalog (1978-present)
• The source of Bill Thayer's "A Selection of Articles from Various Journals in the Fields of Classics and Archaeology" has a DEATHDATES field for checking 70-years-since-author-death
• Cornell's "Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States"
• DownLOEBables