14
Jul
2022
Looking for Copyright Records in Old Florida
At the 2022 Copyright Society Annual Meeting, I made an offhand comment that Florida wins the prize for fewest copyright registrations before... Read More
12
Oct
2020
Counting Copyright Registrations Before 1870
This past spring/summer, my article (coauthored with Richard Schwinn, Ph.D) entitled “An Empirical Study of 225 Years of Copyright Registrations.” This post... Read More
7
Dec
2017
Archival Adventures: The First Louisiana Copyright
As folks to this blog likely noticed, I engaged in a project to bring together all pre-1870 copyright records, which culminated in... Read More
6
May
2017
Pre-1870 Copyright Records from the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress
The Rare Book Room isn’t the only part of the Library of Congress with copyright records from before copyright was entrusted with... Read More
6
Apr
2017
Announcing the Release of Over 2,000 Pages of Lost Pre-1870 Copyright Records
This post is fairly long, and I don’t want to bury the lede, so here it is: I’ve tracked down and digitized... Read More
18
Jan
2017
Transcriptions of Pre-1870 US Copyright Records
Until mid-1870, copyright registration duties were handled by the local U.S. District Court of the author or proprietor, while the work itself was... Read More