Copyright Clearinghouse Roster
| General Info re: locating copyright owners | ||
| Entity | Specialty | Contact Info |
| U.S. Copyright Office Records | A free online service of the United States Copyright Office | www.copyright.gov/ Copyright Office Library of Congress Washington, DC 20559 202-707-9100 (forms & publications hotline) |
| Academic Book and Journal Publishers: A service of the Professional Center Library for Law and Management, Wake Forest University. | Maintains a site with links to many publishers. Designed for teachers and scholars. | www.law.wfu.edu/library /copyright/bodyfrpu.htm |
| Directory of Publishers and Vendors | Compiled by AcqWeb. An international directory of publishers and vendors used by libraries. It links to publisher web sites and email addresses. | http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt .edu/acqweb/pubr.html |
| Project Acorn | Helpful information about how to find copyright owners. | acorn.lboro.ac.uk/acorn/ |
| The WATCH File Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center |
The WATCH file (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) is a searchable online database containing the names and the addresses of rights holders or contact persons for authors (and artists). | The WATCH File Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Drawer 7219 Austin, TX 78713-7219 512-471-9119 (Tel.) http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ |
| The Authors Registry | maintains an extensive directory of authors, with contact addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses. | 31 East 28th Street New York, NY 10016 212-564-5363 (Tel.) staff@authorsregistry.org http://www.authorsregistry.org/ |
