How Do I Find the Initial Registration of a Monograph?

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Find the Initial Registration of a Monograph?

TOPIC: A copyright is defined as the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, and sell the matter and form of a literary, musical, or artistic work. U.S. Copyrights (File 120) provides access to registration details for all active copyright and mask-work registrations or renewals granted by the U.S. Copyright Office from January 1, 1978 to the present. The database is a fast screening tool for checking the ownership and registration status of a particular work, as well as a particular individual's or entity's portfolio of registered works.

The database contains three type of records:
1. monograph records
2. serial records
3. legal document records

In this example you are looking for the initial registration of a monograph entitled Teaching with the Internet. Monograph and serial records contain information on the initial registration and renewal of a work. These documents tend to be quite short—less than 20 lines.

COMMAND SUMMARY

BEGIN 120
SELECT (TEACHING(2N)INTERNET)/TI,NT
SELECT S1/C
TYPE S2/6/ALL
TYPE S2/9/13

HOW TO...

1. BEGIN in the copyright database (File 120). 2. SELECT keywords using the (N) proximity operator to take the place of stop words (with, the). Limit the search to the title (/TI) and named title (/NT) fields. 3. LIMIT the search to initial registrations of serial or monograph records (/C).
4. TYPE all records in Format 6 to see the titles of the works. Note: Some records are omitted from this display.
Note that record 13 is the one we are looking for.
5. TYPE record 13 in the resulting set (S2) in Format 9 to see the entire record.

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