how can I research who has the copyright of "The Education of a
Golfer," a book written in 1962 by Sam Snead.

Hello gprecourt~

To find out who owns the copyright to an U.S. work, you?ll have to
work with the U.S. Copyright Office. Anything before 1978 requires
that the Office search manually for information, and is therefore
subject to a fee of  $75 an hour.

Alternatively, you can do the search yourself, if you go in person to
the Copyright Office. They are open to the public Monday through
Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., (eastern time); they are closed on
federal holidays.

You?ll find the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, James
Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue, S.E., Washington,
D.C., near the Capitol South Metro stop. You?ll find the Public
Information Office at LM-401. You will have to ?register? before you
do any searching. (See ?Reader Registration,? Library of Congress,
http://www.loc.gov/rr/security/readerreg.html )

If the work was renewed in 1978 or later, you can conduct your own
search online, for free. Records may be found here:
http://www.copyright.gov/records/

I did find some information on the book in question here:
http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/formprocessor/copyright/locis.pl

For very detailed instructions on searching for copyright status, read
?How To Investigate The Copyright Status of a Work,? Circular 22, the
U.S. Copyright Office: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ22.html

Good luck!

Kriswrite

RESEARCH STRATEGY:
Researcher?s personal knowledge, and a search of the U.S. Copyright Office

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Request for Answer Clarification by gprecourt-ga on 28 Mar 2004 18:52 PST

Thanks so much for such an exhaustive report. My only problem: The url

http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/formprocessor/copyright/locis.pl

leads to a >You did not enter a search term. Please try again< message.

Thanks again.

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Clarification of Answer by kriswrite-ga on 29 Mar 2004 07:31 PST

Hi again Gprecourt~

I apologize for the broken link. Sometimes results to searches do
that. If you go to http://www.copyright.gov/records and type in the
name of your book, you'll come up with the results I discovered,
though.

Thank you for the great rating--and for the tip! I appreciate them both!

Good luck in your investigation,
Kriswrite

fast and thorough. I'm very impressed.