John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
Copyright detective work
•Popular Lord Peter Wimsey mystery in US public domain since 1951, but not online until 2005
•Needed to:
–Search renewal
records
–Research publication
history
–Find a first edition
to transcribe
–Meticulously record
what we did to clear the
book
•Expensive to scale
up
–(see work by Denise
Troll Covey at CMU)
