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Finding the Public Domain:19 Institutions Making an Impact

Kristina Eden and Melissa Levine

University of Michigan Library

Educause E-Live! – Nov 5, 2014



Speakers

Kristina Eden, University of Michigan,

Instruction Librarian for the Copyright Review

Management System (CRMS)

Melissa Levine, University of Michigan,

Principal Investigator, CRMS

Contact us: [email protected]



Copyright determination: Why now?

• “Bibliographic indeterminacy”

• Investment in our collections

• Low certainty on rights status

• Fulfilling the promise of the public

domain




What is CRMS?


Three IMLS National Leadership Grants:

CRMS-US (2008-2011)

CRMS-World (2011-2014)

CRMS “Toolkit” (2014-2016)Advisory Board

Jack Bernard Georgia Harper

Kenneth Crews Peter Hirtle

Kevin Smith Jessica Litman

Sharon Farb Bobby Glushko



HathiTrust Digital Library

~12,449,175 total volumes

~6,398,477 book titles

~326,246 serial titles

~4,357,211,250 pages

558 terabytes

147 miles

10,115 tons

4,582,899 volumes in the

public domain (~37% of total)

Statistics as of 2014-10-24 from http://www.hathitrust.org/statisics_info

http://www.hathitrust.org/statisics_info






Limited (search-only)

Full view



Viewability Breakdown

4,582,899

volumes in thepublic domain

63%

37%

In-Copyright or Undetermined Public Domain




CRMS Institutions


• Baylor University

• University of California, Irvine

• University of California, Los

Angeles

• University of California, SanFrancisco

• California Digital Library

• Columbia University

• Dartmouth College

• Duke University

• Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-

Champaign

• Indiana University

• Johns Hopkins University

• University of Maryland

• McGill University

• University of Michigan• University of Minnesota

• Northwestern University

• The Ohio State University

• Penn State University• Princeton University

• University of Wisconsin



Leveraging the Community


Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)Stanford Renewal Database



CRMS-US

• US publications

• 1923-1963

• Formalities (copyrightrenewal registration)

CRMS-World

• UK, Australia, Canada

• 1870’s-1940’s

• Author death dates


• Two independent reviews of every volume

• Complex and unresolvable items are set aside (“Undetermined”)

• Final determinations are exported, updating the HathiTrust rights

database

For both



CRMS-World candidate pool

May 2012-present


HathiTrustingests new

volumes

from partner

libraries

Candidatepool headed

towards

completion



Educause E-Live! – Nov 5, 2014Review Interface – Security Measures



Educause E-Live! – Nov 5, 2014Review Interface – How it works



Educause E-Live! – Nov 5, 2014A Brief Demonstration



Educause E-Live! –

Nov 5, 2014

Two review process




➔ identify a practical scope of inquiry

➔ comprehensively research the law

➔ use proven and auditable methods

➔ standardize training

➔ expect complications and uncertainty

Achieving Legally Reliable Results



Results to Date (2008-2014)


58% Public Domain

16% In Copyright

26% Undetermined

Public

Domain

236,466IC

67,342

UND107,077



CRMS Projects So Far

2008 - October 2014:

410,000+ volumes reviewed

• Approx 236,500 in the public domain(58%)

• Those volumes opened up/now

available as full-text in HathiTrust





Making the Public Domain Tangible

March 16, 2012Nov 10, 2008Feb 12, 2014



Lessons - Training

• Improving remote training tools

• Individual time commitments

• Centralized training model

• Working on smaller sub-projects

(Spain)




Author death dates





Creating/Updating NACO Records



“Inserts”




Crowdsourcing

• Can we identify patterns?

• Where is the easiest place tostart?

– Dissertations

– Languages other than English

– Photographs


“Undetermined” category

26% areunclear



Top 12 Languages in HathiTrust


English,

3,243,743,56%

German,

600,936, 10%

French,

476,989, 8%

Spanish,

285,951,5%

Chinese,

245,170, 4%

Russian,

238,373,4%Japanese,

218,472, 4%Italian,

165,571, 3%

Arabic,

118,254,

2%

Latin,89,777,

2%

Portuguese,

56,971, 1%

Polish, 54,643,

1%



Next IMLS Grant

December 2014 – February 2016

• Continue UK, Australia, Canada reviews• Sustainability plan with HathiTrust

• Toolkit and Perspectives




Elaine L. Westbrooks, University of Michigan(Chair)

Kyle Courtney, Harvard University

Sharon Farb, UCLA

Joseph Hafner, McGill University

Melissa Levine, University of Michigan

Monica McCormick, New York University

Kevin Smith, Duke University


HathiTrust: Rights and Access Working Group

Purpose: To promote HathiTrust’s ability to provide the widest possible access to its

collections within the law by establishing priorities for rights determinations and strategies

for engagement with rights holders.

http://www.hathitrust.org/rights_and_access_charge




Looking to the future

• CRMS “Toolkit”

• Expand scope to works beyond the Englishlanguage

• Tackle the “undetermined” volumes

• State government documents

• Linked data ideas



Copyright Review Management System-US

https://www.lib.umich.edu/imls-national-leadership-grant-crms

Copyright Review Management System-World

https://www.lib.umich.edu/imls-national-leadership-grant-crms-world

Melissa Levine, [email protected]

Richard Adler, [email protected]

Justin Bonfiglio, [email protected]

Kristina Eden, [email protected]

Thank You!

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