Finding the public domain
Subtitle: copyright review management system toolkit
Contributors: Alder, Richard C.; Bonfiglio, Justin; Eden, Kristina; Hall, Brian S.; University of Michigan. Library. Copyright Office
Publisher: Board of Regents, University of Michigan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Ann Arbor, Michigan]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Public domain (Copyright law); Copyright
Description: Copyright is meant to do something--several things--to accomplish socially desirable ends. One of those ends is to create a space for a free exchange of ideas that allows us to build upon a universe of expression that came before. How can I tell if something is in the public domain? This is the central question addressed daily by the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project. It is a special question and one essential to the social bargain that society has struck with authors and rights holders. It is also a deceptively simple question. There should be a straightforward answer, especially for books. It should be easy to know when something is--or is not--subject to copyright. And yet, in an age of absolute fluidity of media and medium, even plain old books can be highly complex embodiments of copyright. We need to make it easier to ascertain whether a work is in the public domain. If the rights of copyright holders are to be respected and valued as part of the social bargain, the public domain as a matter of copyright law should be ascertainable and enjoyed. Given this complexity, consider the determination of the copyright status of a given creative work as a design problem. How do we move the copyright status of works in the collections of our libraries, museums, and archives from confusion and uncertainty to clarity and opportunity? Working over a span of nearly eight years, the University of Michigan Library received three grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to generously fund CRMS, a cooperative effort by partner research libraries to identify books in the public domain in HathiTrust. The Toolkit is a resource that aims to allow others to understand and replicate the work done by CRMS.
Notes: "Prepared by the CRMS project team with generous support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Copyright as a design problem. Acknowledgments. About the Copyright Review Management System Toolkit. Getting started : How to use this toolkit; title: Preplanning document 1: building your team; title: Preplanning document 2: building your project; title: Preplanning document 3: CRMS project decision points. At a glance: overview : Leadership; title: Project scoping; title: Legal; title: Personnel; title: Copyright review; title: Documentation; title: Output/Access decisions; title: Verification; title: Funding. Involving your leadership : Dean and library administrators; title: Office of General Counsel; title: HathiTrust leadership; title: Advisory working group. Project scoping : The scope of CRMS-US; title: The scope of CRMS-world; title: An alternate approach: author-based scoping; title: Another approach for US works: copyright notice-based review; title: Application: US state government documents. Legal : About this legal section; title: CRMS-US: building copyright expertise; title: Duration of copyright in the US; title: CRMS-world: building international copyright expertise; title: Additional considerations; title: Observations. Personnel : Selecting reviewers; title: Time commitments; title: Security and authorizing reviewers for access; title: Training; title: Distance learning; title: Sandbox; title: Other training tools; title: Readiness for production; title: Reviewer communication; title: Benchmarking and ongoing reviewer management; title: Experts; title: Supervisor communication; title: Cost-share reports. Verification : Double review; title: Copyright review verification. Funding : Cost-share reporting; title: Challenges to flexibility; title: Institutional funding. Technical : About this technical section; title: A glossary of terms useful for copyright determination; title: Technical components; title: Core elements; title: Critical advanced elements; title: Recommended elements; title: The CRMS review process; title: The review process. Pilot projects : Reviewing works published in Spain; title: Latin American works from the Benson Collection at University of Texas at Austin; title: Humboldt University of Berlin: Rights Research Project for German Books; title: Contributing to Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) records; title: US state government documents. Appendices : Rights and reason codes; title: Excerpts from the CRMS-world Wiki; title: CRMS-world training test 1; title: CRMS-world training test 2. Glossary. Resources. Index.