Wikidata:Property proposal/copyright registration
US copyright registration ID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
Description | ID assigned by the US copyright office recording the registration of copyright for a creative work, or the renewal of such a copyright |
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Represents | copyright registration (Q5169284) |
Data type | External identifier |
Template parameter | copyright registration |
Domain | item, subclasses of creative work (Q17537576), plus some instances of version, edition or translation (Q3331189) |
Allowed values | [A-Z][A-Za-z. ]*[\d-]+\d |
Example 1 | copyright renewal (Q108896873) → A15797 (object has role (P3831) → copyright registration (Q5169284)) |
Example 2 | copyright renewal (Q108896873) → no value (object has role (P3831) → copyright renewal (Q108896873)) |
Example 3 | Prelude to a Million Years (Q108896902) → A68499 (object has role (P3831) → copyright registration (Q5169284)) |
Example 4 | Prelude to a Million Years (Q108896902) → R273092 object has role (P3831) → copyright renewal (Q108896873)) |
Planned use | use for recording renewal information currently captured in s:en:Template:Copyright-until |
Number of IDs in source | 100s of thousands |
Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) (in that copyright IDs are no longer being issued as copyright in the US is automatic now) |
Motivation edit
WikiProject Books has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead.: Works published in the US after 1926 and before 1963 has to be registered and renewed to retain copyright. This means the presence of a registration (which has a unique ID) is what determines if many works are in the PD or not. See more details at s:en:Help:Copyright renewals.
The prefix of the ID determines the type of work (e.g. A = book, E = music) and R means "renewal".
Sometimes a renewal or registration only covers part of a work (e.g. just the preface in a certain edition). So in that case, a qualifier of applies to part (P518) probably makes sense. A date qualifier for each should usually be present.
I am not sure if there should be a separate property for renewal, or if a qualifier of object has role (P3831) is better.
This will assist with automating and processing copyright information at Wikisource. Inductiveload (talk) 20:57, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Relevant property that could be used as a qualifier on this property: Wikidata:Property_proposal/relevant_date_for_copyright
Discussion edit
- Comment can you add a text in the "description" field of the property proposal explaining the information it's meant to include? --- Jura 21:18, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Done Inductiveload (talk) 21:23, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. If the identifier is indeed unique and this is limited to the US, the datatype should be external-id and a label "US copyright registration ID" would work better. --- Jura 21:32, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Done (though I haven't moved the page) Inductiveload (talk) 21:34, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Looks good. Moving the page isn't needed. --- Jura 21:37, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks. If the identifier is indeed unique and this is limited to the US, the datatype should be external-id and a label "US copyright registration ID" would work better. --- Jura 21:32, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- Done Inductiveload (talk) 21:23, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
- See [1] for formatting, the prefix also indicates if the work was registered as published or unpublished. Jarnsax (talk) 15:21, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
- @Jarnsax: and the other file you showed me: https://www.copyright.gov/historic-records/admin-classification.pdf for a description of the historical formats, so the format is something much more complex.
- And the actual formatting as printed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries is variable: phab:F34641030 says
Class A, XXc, no. 232831
, but by that guide PDF, it is also written more likeA xxc 232831
. So I changed the format to[A-Z][A-Za-z. ]*[\d-]+\d
which should cover most variants. - There is still apparently no universal service for looking these up (LoC has post-1978 numbers at cocatalog above, Stanford has book renewals), so I'm not sure about the formatter URL. Inductiveload (talk) 18:55, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- @User:Inductiveload It's probably worth pointing out that the Standford db is explicitly not reliable (it's based on an unchecked transcription). It's only meant to serve as a finding aid, and errors are rampant. Jarnsax (talk) 19:06, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- Support, long-needed functionality. PseudoSkull (talk) 11:21, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
- Support but the proposed formatter URL should be entered instead as a third-party formatter - it's not the official one, and as noted it doesn't work for original id's. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:26, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith: Happy to, but how does one enter it as a third-party formatter? Inductiveload (talk) 11:50, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Just use third-party formatter URL (P3303) on the property page after it is created. ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:49, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Ah right, thanks! I removed it from the proposal. Inductiveload (talk) 16:20, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
- Just use third-party formatter URL (P3303) on the property page after it is created. ArthurPSmith (talk) 16:49, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- @ArthurPSmith: Happy to, but how does one enter it as a third-party formatter? Inductiveload (talk) 11:50, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
- Support, data can be added from enWS. - ei (talk) 18:17, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
- Done @Inductiveload, Jura1, Jarnsax, PseudoSkull, ArthurPSmith, Einstein95: created as copyright registration (P9976). Enjoy! --99of9 (talk) 12:16, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
- @99of9 thank you, very much appreciated! Inductiveload (talk) 19:51, 14 October 2021 (UTC)