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Main sites for checking known copyright holders

WATCH Database of copyright holders for writers and artists direct search page is http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/index.cfm

Patents office UK information on copyright http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy, including lists of publishers handling specific copyrights

UK government information on intellectual property rights http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/resources/copyright/index.htm

http://www.cla.co.uk/have_licence/support/excluded.html lists works copyright is obtained from publishers for.

US copyright office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

See also links at top of author - biography links page for pseudonyms, for dates of death of authors etc.

Information on Copyright

How to track down UK copyright http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/uk.cfm a part of WATCH

http://www.copywatch.org protecting works from scanning and photocopying

Crown Copyright in Cyberspace (Conference, 12 May 1995)

European Copyright User Platform (ECUP)

USA

How to track down USA copyrights http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/us.cfm A part of WATCH

US copyright office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright

Getting copyright and getting copyright owners permission around the world http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/okbooks.html

Project Gothenburg advice on copyright for creating e-texts http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html

Confirming texts were in the public domain for the period that makes them still public domain http://promo.net/pg/vol/howto6.html

Was copyright renewed in the USA http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/renewals.html

Public domain works in the USA where overseas owners had their copyrights restored http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/gatt.html

Library of congress instructions on how to check the copyright of a work http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ22.html

US catalogue of copyright entries renewals http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ccer/ccer.htm

"Copyright Law and Graduate Research" by Kenneth D. Crews

Groton Public Schools Online - Copyright Implementation Manual

University of Pittsburgh advice on copyright http://www.library.pitt.edu/guides/copyright/

Stanford University Libraries - Copyright and Fair Use

The University of Texas - Intellectual Property Home Page

Other countries

Australian Copyright Council (ACC)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Writers organizations

Society of Authors 84 Drayton Gardens, London SW10 9SB

National Writers Union (NWU)

The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society 14-18 Hoborn, London EC1N 2LE

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain 430 Edgware Road, London W2 1EH0.

For Ireland, it may be worth contacting the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency (The Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1), and for France, the Institut Mémoires de l'édition contemporaine (25 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris). Or other societies listed below.

http://www.writersworld.tv London writers site http://www.writersworld.tv/authors/copyrightarticle1.asp articles relating to copyright actions and protection.

Organisations that represent copyright holders in the UK

Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Authors Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS)

Chartered Institute of Journalists

The Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)

Directory and Database Publishers Association

National Union of Journalists (NUJ)

The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA)

The Newspaper Society

Periodical Publishers Association

Publishers Association

Publishers Licensing Society (PLS)

The Society of Authors

Training Media Copyright Association

Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB)

Plus a long list starting at http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/resources/copyright/copyright_links/a_d.htm

Copyright Collectives and Licensing Agencies

Authors Registry

Publication Rights Clearinghouse (PRC)

Visual Artists and Galleries Association (VAGA)At this time, VAGA does not have a web site. VAGA 521 Fifth Avenue Suite 800 New York, NY 10175 phone: (212) 808-0616 fax: (212) 808 0064 email: rpanzer.vaga@erols.com

International Reproduction Rights Organisations CLA is a Reproduction Rights Organisation or 'RRO'. Many countries have established counterpart organisations to CLA,and the number of such agencies is growing. Nearly all these agencies, including CLA, are members of IFRRO. IFRRO is the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations.

Australia Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL)

Austria (Literar-Mechana)

Belgium (ReproBel)

Brazil (ABDR)

Canada CANCOPY (Canada) and Quebec (COPIBEC)

Denmark (CopyDan)

France (C.F.C.) (CFC)

Finland (Kopiosto)

Germany (VG Wort/VG Bild-Kunst)

Greece (OSDEL)

Italy (AIDRO)

Iceland (Fjolis)