U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December
U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1974 July - December
This is not a book to read cover to cover. It's a slice of legal history, frozen in bureaucratic notation: every American copyright renewal registered between July and December 1974, cataloged by the Library of Congress. Here you will find the names of authors, the titles they chose to protect, and the dates their intellectual property was re-registered under US law. Some names are famous; many are not. What emerges is an unintentional portrait of American publishing in a specific moment, a snapshot of what the culture deemed worth protecting and preserving. For researchers, this reference work answers a precise question: which works had their copyrights renewed in these six months, and who owned them? For the curious, it offers the strange pleasure of browsing a moment frozen in legal amber.
