Re: http://bulk.resource.org/copyright/ and definitive info on this LOC release

[Jon Phillips <xxx@creativecommons.org>]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 11:01 -0700, Aaron Swartz wrote:
> Pre-78 records are stored in big books. I believe the Internet Archive  
> and distributed proofreaders have scanned them. I've been trying to  
> track down the guy who led the project but no luck yet.

You mean at Internet Archive, this past project lead? Man, this would be
killer to get these...

Jon

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> 
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Jon Phillips <xxxxxxx@creativecommons.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 08:21 -0700, Carl Malamud wrote:
> >>> Ok, great! Are you going to refresh this information on a regular  
> >>> basis?
> >>> It would be great to sync up on this....
> >>
> >> Hi Jon -
> >>
> >> We've got a weekly update going now on the copyright.  There's
> >> also an rss feed in the works.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Carl
> >
> > Carl, this is brilliant...what about the archives pre-1978? How can we
> > get those? At CC, we are interested in assessing public domain  
> > status of
> > works, and having these works pre-1978 would be mind blowing...
> >
> > thx
> >
> > Jon
> >
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