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Over One Million Card Catalog Records Digitized in Copyright Public Records System Pilot

Posted by: Nora Scheland

This summer, the Copyright Office reached a new milestone in our modernization efforts: one million card catalog records have been digitized with searchable metadata and added to the Office’s Copyright Public Records System (CPRS) pilot. Learn more about CPRS, the Office’s digitization efforts, and historical registration application cards in this blog post.

Posted in: Copyright, Copyright Matters, Deposit Copies, education, fees, historical, Inside the Copyright Office, literature, music, News and Events, photography, Poetry, Public Domain, Registration, technology, Uncategorized, video, virtual card catalog, Visual Arts, Website

Get to Know the Territory: Musicals Based on Public Domain Works

Posted by: Nora Scheland

Do you hear the people sing, singing the songs inspired by the public domain? Broadways musicals have a long tradition of pulling inspiration from the plays, short stories, operas, and more in the public domain. Let's take a look at five musicals and what inspired them.

Posted in: Copyright, education, film, historical, international, literature, music, Poetry, Public Domain, Uncategorized