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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Cassandra Gardner started working for the Library while still in high school. She never left and, forty years later, is retiring this month. Next year, she says, she'll look for a parttime job "for travel and casino money" because "life is too short not to enjoy yourself."
Posted in: Copyright, Gazette, Library Work and Employees, My Job
Posted by: Neely Tucker
In the winter of 1906, Mark Twain was a tired and grieving man. He was 71. The past dozen years had been brutal. He had gone bankrupt in the mid-1890s. Then his 24-year-old daughter died from spinal meningitis. Then his beloved wife, Olivia, suffered through years of heart trouble before dying at age 58 in …
Posted in: Copyright, Photos, Today in History, Uncategorized, Washington DC, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library’s newest crowdsourcing campaign, American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages, is now online and ready for your amusement, education and transcription. It features the great (and not so great) ideas of yesteryear in copyright applications from 1790 to 1870, which recorded the young nation’s attempts to capitalize on the present and transform the future.
Posted in: By the People, Copyright, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
During Pride Month, the U.S. Copyright Office offers guidance and encouragement to drag performers to register their creative work for copyright protection.
Posted in: Copyright, LGBTQ, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
George Thuronyi, the deputy director of Public Information and Education for the Copyright Office, chooses favorite historical items submitted for copyright registration.
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Senior information specialist Rosemary Brawner helps the public understand copyright.
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The copyright applications for the Statue of Liberty are some of the most famous in the Library's holdings.
Posted in: Copyright, Free to Use and Reuse
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Nearly 50,000 title pages that accompanied copyright registrations dating back to the foundation of the country are now online for the first time, featuring works by some of the nation's most famous authors.
Posted in: Copyright, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Nicole Lamberson of the Copyright Office offers fun guidance as to what you can and can't copyright.