Handle renewals in the registrations

[seanredmond]

There are two versions of this: 1) Registrations that are their own renewals and 2) renewals that are in the registrations for some reason.

An example of the first is A1053002, being registered for the first time, just under the deadline to renew it:

KENT, FRANK R. Political behavior: the heretofore unwritten laws, customs and principles of
politics as practiced in the United States. © 23Aug28; A1053002. Frank R. Kent (A); 
28Oct55; R158303.

Of the second is on pg 1507 of 1960 No. 2

The second entry is just the renewal for A58707. Why it is in the registrations and not the renewals pages of the volume, I don't know.

The solution for both is probably to add a <renewalEntry> element that can be a child of <copyrightEntries>, <entryGroup>, or a single <copyrightEntry>

[gregcram]

As we move beyond books and into other formats, we'll need to account for renewals in the DTD. Perhaps this is an opportunity to add a few elements on renewals, or this might be a unique situation that doesn't call for our focus on renewal DTDs.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:59 AM Sean Redmond notifications@github.com wrote:

There are two versions of this: 1) Registrations that are their own renewals and 2) renewals that are in the registrations for some reason.

An example of the first is A1053002, being registered for the first time, just under the deadline to renew it:

KENT, FRANK R. Political behavior: the heretofore unwritten laws, customs and principles of

politics as practiced in the United States. © 23Aug28; A1053002. Frank R. Kent (A);

28Oct55; R158303.

Of the second is on pg 1507 of 1960 No. 2

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The second entry is just the renewal for A58707. Why it is in the registrations and not the renewals pages of the volume, I don't know.

The solution for both is probably to add a element that can be a child of , , or a single

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[zvisrosen]

I was told by the Copyright Office that getting renewals and registrations in the same envelope was not unheard of, especially in 2005 (I think people misunderstood the end of renewal and renewal).

It looks like the first one was an example of that, but I don't think it is. The XXC series ended October 13, 1928, and a book registered in August of 1928 would have almost exactly that registration number. Indeed, it was registered timely (which makes sense - the Washingtonian decision was still over a decade away - the card catalog confirms this: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/copyright/hprcatcard/18/98/19/37/KE/NT/-K/ES/E/18981937KENT-KESE/18981937KENT-KESE0123.jpg

For the Niebuhr example I suspect they filed the renewal of the first edition and registration in the newest edition in the same envelope. Why they chose to catalog it that way? No clue.

[seanredmond]

@zvisrosen you are proven right, because A1053002 actually is in the 1928 volume (I didn't find it at first because of a now fixed typo). Turns out this is a bad example of register + renew since it's just a renewal in with the registrations, like the Niebuhr entry. Maybe they all are? We didn't account for this so the XML is a bit messy for these entries.

[seanredmond]

These are templates how I'm thinking to handle this.

Simplest Case

<renewalEntry id="8BDBF399-728D-1014-8500-D70EB891A161">
  <author><authorName>ADAMS, HERBERT.</authorName></author>
  <title>The queen's gate mystery.</title>
  <renewal>
    <registrations> &#x000A9;
      <registration><regDate date="1927-07-08">8Jul27</regDate>; <regNum num="A000999664">A999664</regNum></registration>.
    </registrations>
    <claimant><claimantName>Herbert Adams</claimantName> (<claimantClass>A</claimantClass>)</claimant>; 
    <renewalDate date="1955-04-28">28Apr55</renewalDate>; <renewalNum num="R000149031">R149031</renewalNum>
  </renewal>
</renewalEntry>

Interim + Regular Registration

<renewalEntry id="51CBFDE3-72C4-1014-84F6-87703AD4166D">
  <author><authorName>SCOTT, WINIFRED MARY.</authorName></author>
  <title>The last days of September</title>,
  <author><role>by</role> <authorName>Pamela Wynne</authorName>, <role>pseud.</role> </author>
  <renewal>
    <registrations> ©
      <registration><regDate date="1931-05-19">19May31</regDate>, <regNum num="AI000015224">AI-15224</regNum></registration>;
      <registration><regDate date="1931-08-06">6Aug31</regDate>, <regNum num="A000041100">A41100</regNum></registration>.
    </registrations>
    <claimant><claimantName>Winifred Mary Scott</claimantName> (<claimantClass>A</claimantClass>)</claimant>; 
    <renewalDate date="1958-08-17">17Aug58</renewalDate>; <renewalNum num="R000219440">R219440</renewalNum>
  </renewal>.
</renewalEntry>

Multiple Renewals in One

<renewalEntry id="53727901-72C4-1014-84F6-87703AD4166D">
  <title>STREET &amp; SMITH'S TOP NOTCH MAGAZINE.</title>
  © <claimant><claimantName>Street &amp; Smith Publications, Inc.</claimantName> (<claimantClass>PCW</claimanClass>)<claimant> <vol>v.86, no. 3-6, July 1-Aug. 15, 1931</vol>.
  <renewal>
    <registrations> ©
      <registration renewal_num="R000218020" renewal_date="1958-07-16"><regDate date="1931-05-29">29May31</regDate>, <regNum>B116123</regNum></registration>;
      <registration renewal_num="R000218021" renewal_date="1958-07-16"><regDate date="1931-06-17">17Jun31</regDate>, <regNum>B118058</regNum></registration>;
      <registration renewal_num="R000218022" renewal_date="1958-07-16"><regDate date="1931-07-01">1Jul31</regDate>, <regNum>B118953</regNum></registration>;
      <registration renewal_num="R000218023" renewal_date="1958-07-16"><regDate date="1931-07-15">15Jul31</regDate>, <regNum>B121578</regNum></registration>.
    </registrations>
    <regDate date="1958-07-16">16Jul58</regDate>; <regNum num="R000218020 R000218021 R000218022 R000218023">R218020-218023</regNum>.
  </renewal>
</renewalEntry>

These are common cases in the renewals proper. The granularity (<registrations>/<registration>) may seem like overkill in the first example, but one thing we've learned is how many dates and ids can be stuffed into a single entry and complicated it can be to figure out which go with which.

I've also thrown in some potential global changes:

• normalizing the ids to the same format used by the copyright office database
• making the normalization an attribute of the number element rather than the top element of the entry as we've been doing with copyrightEntry.

[zvisrosen]

This looks really great! I approve of having a robust system like this that's flexible enough for complicated situations.

Ad interim copyright was a funny system, whereby you needed to file for ad interim upon publication of a book in the English language abroad, and publish (and re-register) within four months in the United States from type set in the United States (Until 1922 it was only one month). Robert Spoo has written about how this rule proved problematic for authors like James Joyce, who could not easily find publishers in the United States due to concerns of criminal obscenity prosecutions.

Failure to comply with ad interim meant you lost your US copyright protection, but most authors got it back with the Uruguay Round / restoration.

[seanredmond]

Fixed as of v2.2