According to Publishers Marketplace:
Google Book Search has taken databases of pre-1978 copyright renewal records compiled by Carnegie Mellon's Universal Library Project and digitized by Project Gutenberg and the Distributed Proofreaders and combined them into a downloadable XML file.
Google Book Search offers a link to the XML file, which Google is making available for free. You can use the file to check on the copyright of a book you are interested in or wish to quote.
1 comment:
Great tip, thanks. I've bookmarked it for future use. And its certainly good to know how long a book can actually be held in copyright -- I didn't have any idea.
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