This has moved to an official
PGDP site in March of 2007. The information on this page is no longer being maintained and will most likely be out of date.
Welcome to the home of
TWiki.PGRule6. This is a web-based collaboration area for notes used for clearing books for Project Gutenberg using
Rule 6.
Greg Weeks'
detailed procedure and a
template for reporting Rule 6 research.
The periodicals renewals pages from The Catalog of Copyright Entries prior to 1978 are complete at the
The Online Books page.
If you are working on science fiction, the
contento index is quite useful for finding first publication information as well as other works for an author. It only covers science fiction though, so if the author wrote in multiple genre it won't be complete.
fantasticfiction has a useful list of novels, but does not have any information on first publication or periodicals.
First published in 1952 or later the renewals are in the online system only at
http://www.copyright.gov/ if first published 1948 or earlier none of the records are in the online system and you only need to search
11800. If first published in 1949 to 1951 you must search
11800 and the online system for renewals. If the edition you have claims multiple copyright dates you must clear all dates. Magazine publication prior to the book publication complicates the search. Magazine publication is not alway apparent from the title page information of the book. Search carefully. The magazine itself can be renewed as well as the contribution to it. Both must be searched. Whole magazine renewals are in the book database online and not in the periodicals database. Use a title search on the magazine name to find them.
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