Re: Invented Languages receives its ISSN

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.

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Jim Henry
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