How does one do a copyright holder search?
Sep. 2nd, 2007 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaI'm pretty sure there's someone on my flist who knows the answer to this.
Let's say that I'm interested in doing an adaptation of a novel into another medium. The original author is dead and the book is out of print.
How would I go about finding the person who currently owns the copyright? If the work was written before 1977, how can I determine that the work was properly copyrighted at all?
Let's say that I'm interested in doing an adaptation of a novel into another medium. The original author is dead and the book is out of print.
How would I go about finding the person who currently owns the copyright? If the work was written before 1977, how can I determine that the work was properly copyrighted at all?
