Copyright Office Receives
First E-Books for Deposit
The US Copyright Office, which has successfully registered almost 40,000 claims and deposits for other types of electronic works in the past four years, has received its first e-books for electronic registration and deposit.
McGraw-Hill’s submission of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Wireless Web and The BusinessWeek Guide to the Best Business Schools in late June and early July constituted the first copyright claims and deposits of full-length e-books transmitted via e-mail and processed entirely through the Copyright Office Electronic Registration, Recordation, and Deposit System (CORDS). The system’s earlier registrations were for e-journals, technical reports, computer programs, electronic study guides, dissertations, and musical works submitted as part of a test program.
“CORDS has great promise for future efficiencies in Copyright Office operations, providing improved and expanded services to the copyright communities,” said Marybeth Peters, register of copyrights.
Whether e-books themselves are catching on is another matter, according to the July 12 e-business magazine Industry Standard. For example, the Denver Public Library’s 7,000-title e-book collection was accessed only 212 times in the most recent 180-day reporting period.
Posted July 23, 2001.
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