{"id":1062,"date":"2007-09-17T18:40:43","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2007-09-17T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T18:40:43","slug":"you_cant_copyright_copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/you_cant_copyright_copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"you can&#8217;t copyright copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indefatigable Carl Malamud of <a href=\"http:\/\/public.resource.org\/\">public.resource.org<\/a> today sent out a <a href=\"http:\/\/public.resource.org\/letter_to_peters.html\">public interest letter<\/a> to the U.S. Copyright Office demanding that they provide bulk access over the Internet to the catalog of copyrighted monographs, documents and serials, a resource which to date has been accessible in full only through costly subscriptions and access fees to the tune of $86,625 (currently it&#8217;s available for free only by individual record queries).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The copyright catalog of monographs, documents, and serials is not a product, it is fuel that makes the copyright system work. Anybody should be able to download the entire database to their desktop, write a better search application, or use this public domain information to research copyright questions.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also makes the point that under U.S. copyright law, government publications are supposed to be automatically in the public domain, which makes this Library of Congress-sponsored priced access racket particularly hard to swallow. Read the full letter (co-signed by a good group including Peter Brantley and Rick Prelinger) <a href=\"http:\/\/public.resource.org\/letter_to_peters.html\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/09\/carl_malamud_ta_1.html\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indefatigable Carl Malamud of public.resource.org today sent out a public interest letter to the U.S. Copyright Office demanding that they provide bulk access over the Internet to the catalog of copyrighted monographs, documents and serials, a resource which to date has been accessible in full only through costly subscriptions and access fees to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[3196],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","tag-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}