Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit

Melissa Levine, Richard C. Adler, Justin Bonfiglio, Kristina Eden, and Brian S. Hall

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/crmstoolkit.14616082.0001.001

Published by: Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2016.

  

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Table of Contents

• Copyright as a Design Problem
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • About the Copyright Review Management System Toolkit
• Getting Started
  • How to Use This Toolkit
  • Preplanning Document 1: Building Your Team
    • 1. Project Manager
    • 2. Legal Expert
    • 3. Developer
    • 4. Training and Reviewer Manager (Quality Control)
    • 5. Copyright Reviewers
  • Preplanning Document 2: Building Your Project
    • Institutional Commitment
    • Project Design
    • Data Collection
    • Legal
    • Project Management
    • Training
    • Process
    • Technical Considerations
    • Verification
    • Funding
  • Preplanning Document 3: CRMS Project Decision Points
    • Foreign Language/Script
    • Inserts
    • Translations
    • Dissertation/Thesis
    • Periodicals
    • Non–Class A Works (United States)
    • Editions
    • Government Works
    • Author-Based Determinations
• At a Glance—Overview
  • Leadership
  • Project Scoping
  • Legal
  • Personnel
  • Copyright Review
  • Documentation
  • Output/Access Decisions
  • Verification
  • Funding
• Involving Your Leadership
  • Dean and Library Administrators
  • Office of General Counsel
  • HathiTrust Leadership
  • Advisory Working Group
• Project Scoping
  • The Scope of CRMS-US
  • The Scope of CRMS-World
  • An Alternate Approach: Author-Based Scoping
  • Another Approach for US Works: Copyright Notice–Based Review
  • Application: US State Government Documents
• Legal
  • About This Legal Section
  • CRMS-US: Building Copyright Expertise
  • Duration of Copyright in the US
    • Application: US State Government Documents (1923–77)
    • 17 U.S.C. § 104A: Copyright Restoration under the URAA
    • US Federal Government Documents (17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • CRMS-World: Building International Copyright Expertise
    • Territoriality
    • National Treatment
    • Special Cases
    • King James Bible
    • Peter Pan
    • Crown Copyright
  • Additional Considerations
    • Inserts
    • Published versus Unpublished
    • Application: Dissertations and Theses
    • Additional Authors
    • Translations
    • Multipart Monographs
  • Observations
    • The Importance of the und/nfi Category
    • Notice and Takedown
    • Role of an Advisory Working Group: Oversight from Copyright Experts
    • Partnership and Collaborative Work
• Personnel
  • Selecting Reviewers
  • Time Commitments
  • Security and Authorizing Reviewers for Access
  • Training
  • Distance Learning
  • Sandbox
  • Other Training Tools
  • Readiness for Production
  • Reviewer Communication
  • Benchmarking and Ongoing Reviewer Management
  • Experts
  • Supervisor Communication
  • Cost-Share Reports
• Verification
  • Double Review
  • Copyright Review Verification
    • Preproject Verification
    • Stage 1: Process Verification
    • Stage 2: Results Verification
• Funding
  • Cost-Share Reporting
  • Challenges to Flexibility
  • Institutional Funding
• Technical
  • About This Technical Section
    • Background
  • A Glossary of Terms Useful for Copyright Determination
    • 1. Objects Being Reviewed (“Candidate Pool”)
    • 2. User Roles
    • 3. Interface and System
    • 4. Rights Determination
  • Technical Components
  • Core Elements
    • Web-Based Application Infrastructure
    • CRMS Database
    • Algorithms/Heuristics for Identifying Which Works Are In-Scope
    • A Queuing Algorithm That Presents the Right Volumes to the Right People
    • Review Interface with Information Resources Appropriate to the Research
    • A Way to Export Determinations
  • Critical Advanced Elements
    • Appropriate Access Controls
    • An Algorithm to Provide Recommended Judgments
    • A Mechanism for Resolving Conflicting Reviews
  • Recommended Elements
    • A Way to Link a Given Determination with a Set of Reviews
    • A Means for Reviewers to Put Their Review Temporarily “On Hold”
    • Inheriting Rights Determinations on Otherwise Identical Volumes
    • A “Subproject” Mechanism That Allows Assignment of Volumes and Reviewers to Specific Sets of Works for Review
    • A Mechanism to Detect When Re-review Is Likely to Be Profitable
    • Tools for Searching Various Categories of Reviews
    • Reviewer Performance Statistics Pages
    • Priority
    • A Mechanism for Overseeing New Reviewer Performance
  • The CRMS Review Processes
    • Zephir and the HathiTrust Rights Database
    • Criteria for Identifying In-Scope Volumes
    • The Candidates Pool
    • The Queue
    • The HathiTrust PageTurner Access and Authentication Modules
  • The Review Process
    • System Response to Matches and Conflicts
    • Expert Adjudication
    • Overnight Processing
    • Inheritance
    • CRMS Exports and the HathiTrust Rights Database
• Pilot Projects
  • Reviewing Works Published in Spain
    • Introduction
    • Project Design
    • Workflow
    • Final Observations
    • Outcomes
  • Latin American Works from the Benson Collection at University of Texas at Austin
    • Introduction
    • Project Design
    • Workflow
    • Final Observations
    • Outcomes
  • Humboldt University of Berlin: Rights Research Project for German Books
    • Introduction
    • Project Design
    • Workflow
    • Final Observations
    • Outcomes
  • Contributing to Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) Records
    • Introduction
    • Project Design
    • Workflow
    • Final Observations
    • Outcomes
  • US State Government Documents
    • Introduction
    • Project Design
    • Workflow
    • Final Observations
    • Outcomes
• Appendices
  • Rights and Reason Codes
  • Excerpts from the CRMS-World Wiki
    • Single Authorship
    • Author Death Date Not Found
    • Approximate Death Dates
    • Author Name Missing from Title Page
    • Late Author
    • Foreign Language Works with English Front Matter
    • Compilations and Anthologies
    • Sheet Music or Musical Compositions
  • CRMS-World Training Test 1
  • CRMS-World Training Test 2
• Glossary
• Resources
• Notes

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