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Friday, June 30th, 2006 10:53 pm
KEMNITZER, WILLIAM J.

Rebirth of monopoly; a critical
analysis of economic conduct in the
petroleum industry of the United
States. ? 28Jul38; A119696.
William J. Kemnitzer (A); 6Jul66;
R389070.


That's "Evil Uncle Bill," who arranged revolutions for United Fruit and challenged my brother to a fight when they were moving my great-aunt's stuff around after she died. Are those mysterious numbers copyright dates?
Saturday, July 1st, 2006 09:25 am (UTC)
Yes, 28Jul38 is the original copyright date and 6Jul66 is the date it was renewed.

A couple of years ago the volunteers at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net) digitalized the old paper lists issued (twice a year?) by the copyright office. It was a big project, rather tedious for us proofreaders but important in providing a searchable record of copyrights/renewals for the years before the copyright office switched to computer recordkeeping.