Talk:Copyright Catalog
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Quote
edit- "Since 1978, all United States copyright registrations and renewals have been published online at the Copyright Office website. Prior to 1978,<ref>''Copyright and the Public Domain'' page 11-10; Stephen Fishman - Law Journal Press (2008); ISBN 9781588521514</ref> copyright registrations and renewals were published in semi-annual softcover catalogs."
This statement can't possibly be true as the year 1978 is well before the WWW (and DNS for that matter) existed.
I don't have access to the reference to ensure a confirm the citation, but I suspect the sentence just needs be reworded, for example to start:
"Details of all United States copyright registrations and renewals since 1978 have been published online at..."
Copyright categories section should be updated
editThe Copyright categories section should be updated. Refrigerator Heaven (talk) 14:03, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
Citation guide
editThe http://cocatalog.loc.gov website seems like an amazing resource for citing the existence of episode titles. However while I am able to find results in the database pretty easily, the URLs produced in doing so are very long and ugly-looking.
In the interest of citing them with brevity which others could easily duplicate I am wondering if we have an easy way to produce a unique URL to the required page with the shortest URL possible.
I imagine that would be done on the basis of a code rather than a title search. For example I recently checked the cite for "The First Five", a Kung Fu Panda episode. If I search for "first five" I get this URL:
It produces a list so relying on the SearchArg= parameter does not seem to be ideal. The SEQ= parameter just seems to reflect the date I performed the search, basically useless for citation purposes. I am also not sure what Search_Code=TALL or CNT=25 or HIST=1 represent but they do not seem useful.
Now if I click the top desired result here is what I get...
The PID= string changed although I am not sure what that reflects. What I do notice on this page though is a unique identifier:
- Registration Number / Date: PAu003716234 / 2013-11-07
It would seem like knowing the RN would be adequate, and indeed if I search directly for it (you have to select the reg number field in the dropdown menu instead of the default 'title') we get this URL...
So it seems that Search_Arg reflects what you type in, but Search_Code changed from TALL (title all?) to REGS. The PID and SEQ and CNT and HIST fields are all there though...
I experimented and was able to remove the last three and still have it function:
Removing the PID field caused it to fail though. So I think if we made some kind of citation template it would require both the registration number and this PID. I figure someone has probable done this I am just not sure what the template would be called. 184.145.18.50 (talk) 11:33, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
Online archives of pre-1978?
editThe impression given here is in order to verify the copyright status of a work pre-1978 one either has to locate a printed catalog, or rely on a third party such as a library or archive.org to have scanned the earlier books. But for 1978 onwards, there's a website. Is there a reason why there isn't a complete online database? I don't know if this is out of the purview of this article, but if it's due to budgets or something, it might be worth answering the question. 23skidoo (talk) 16:30, 3 November 2022 (UTC)