Comments on: U.S. copyright renewal records: One click or so to see if an oldie is in the public domain http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-835247 HeavyG Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:17:08 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/06/25/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/#comment-835247 Got the file - it unzips to 380,517KB and has 16,222,410 lines! TextPad (my favorite text editor) searches thru the file very quickly - it will find a string anywhere in the file in about 4 seconds max (YMMV). Got the file – it unzips to 380,517KB and has 16,222,410 lines!

TextPad (my favorite text editor) searches thru the file very quickly – it will find a string anywhere in the file in about 4 seconds max (YMMV).

]]> By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-835069 HeavyG Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:47:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/06/25/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/#comment-835069 Any decent old text editor such as Textpad or Notepad ++ should be able to search thru that fairly quickly. I haven't yet dl'd the file so I can't say for certain what this file looks like but many xml files can be quite ugly/painful to read by mere human eyes but searching for a string should still be quite easy/painless. I'll actually download the file and play with it in a couple of hours. Any decent old text editor such as Textpad or Notepad ++ should be able to search thru that fairly quickly.

I haven’t yet dl’d the file so I can’t say for certain what this file looks like but many xml files can be quite ugly/painful to read by mere human eyes but searching for a string should still be quite easy/painless.

I’ll actually download the file and play with it in a couple of hours.

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-834587 Mike Cane Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:08:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/06/25/us-copyright-renewal-records-one-click-or-so-to-see-if-an-oldie-is-in-the-public-domain/#comment-834587 Zipped it's 56.5MB!! God knows what that will mean UNzipped. What program can be used to open and search that? Zipped it’s 56.5MB!! God knows what that will mean UNzipped. What program can be used to open and search that?

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