I need to know where and how I can access United States Copyright statistics.
The information I want includes the number of applications processed
each year (for approximately the past 10 years), and their success
ratios (for example, out of 100 applications processed, 10 were
accepted).
I have searched the website of the Copyright Office itself,
http://www.copyright.gov/, but was unsuccessful. The information may
be there, but I have not been able to find it.
Thank you. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
31 Jan 2005 16:41 PST
busco-ga,
The Copyright Office's annual reports for the years 2000-2003 can be found here:
http://www.copyright.gov/reports/
The section of the 2003 report titled "Copyright Law Administration"
includes the following statement:
"During fiscal 2003, the Copyright Office received 607,492 claims to
copyright covering more than a million works. Of these, it registered
534,122 claims."
I'm sure you can find similar information in earlier reports, but it
may take a call to the Copyright Office to tease out the numbers for
the past ten years or so.
Hope that helps get you started, anyway...
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
busco-ga
on
04 Feb 2005 11:02 PST
pafalafa-ga,
That is an excellent start. Thank you for finding the information.
Please excuse me (I have never used this service before), what
clarification do you need?
Regards,
busco-ga
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
04 Feb 2005 12:01 PST
busco-ga,
Glad to hear the information was useful.
I didn't mean to confuse you about the clarification thing...I was
just posting the information I had found in the "clarification" box,
because I didn't feel it was enough information to warrant posting in
the official "answer" box.
Consider it a freebie!
paf
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