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Re: Invented Languages receives its ISSN

From:Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 15:46
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Rick Harrison <rick@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:13:44 +0100, David McCann <david@...> > wrote: > >>If it's published in the USA, aren't you legally obliged to deposit it? >>All European national libraries (as far as I know) get all new >>publications by legal deposit. > > I was unaware of it but the US also has such a requirement. Details are > available at http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ07d.html
My understanding is that it used to be a requirement, but hasn't been so (or at least not as strictly so) since the 1970s copyright law changes. A few years ago the Librarian of Congress was asking Congress to tighten the deposit requirements; maybe that's happened since I last researched the subject.
> > There are a lot of daily and weekly newspapers and regional monthlies in the > US. I wonder if the Library of Congress is actually receiving copies of all > of them -- it seems like the sheer volume of material would be impossible to > store.
The LoC have a humongous underground section extending a good distance in each direction from the above-ground visible part, IIRC. -- Jim Henry http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang/fluency-survey.html Conlang fluency survey -- there's still time to participate before I analyze the results and write the article

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