{"id":1039,"date":"2009-12-10T16:14:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2009-12-10T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T23:14:11","slug":"a-day-with-the-us-copyright-office-gasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/a-day-with-the-us-copyright-office-gasp\/","title":{"rendered":"A day with the US Copyright office. Gasp."},"content":{"rendered":"

I started before 11 am; it is now 3:01 pm local, and I just now <\/em>got through registering the copyright on 4 books. I have to give the .gov site kudos for unflappability: it didn’t lose info if you had to backtrack in the maze, and it developed an autofill button from your login, which made things really much easier as far as rote re-typing.<\/p>\n

What they didn’t say was you shouldn’t USE the add new buttons to pile all your books into one basket. That took a call to a live human being in Washington DC to confirm. And what to do? Erase all but one, run it through again and see if you get a shopping cart. Now, since setting up ours, I’ve gotten critical, and this cart is the slowest thing—5 minutes, no kidding, to see if your button push got a cart—or not.<\/p>\n

Then it choked up with a leftover from the first mistake. Of course all of these have case numbers. So I’m having to void and hope the case survives—or in one case—that I can successfully create a new number.<\/p>\n

I can say now, knowing what I know, I could probably do the job in an hour and a half, leaving time for the 5 minute button pushes. But what a process! I mentally tell myself, well, at least I’m not having to stand in line at an office with a brown paper package under my arm.<\/p>\n

I wish there was just something that lit up and said, We noticed your button-push, already! Wait 5 minutes! But there isn’t. You have to sit and sip coffee, being aware the system notoriously crashes—often, apparently; and is down every weekend for maintenance, and is scheduled to be offline for maintenence Friday, too, because it’s wheezing, I’ll guess.<\/p>\n

Megasystems. But it worked. I have receipts. And thanks to the donations (you know who you are) I used those to pay the copyright fees. Much, much appreciated. We’re now registered, and official. Within 9 months we should get a physical certificate, but maybe sooner, they say. In the meanwhile, we have registered copyrights. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started before 11 am; it is now 3:01 pm local, and I just now got through registering the copyright on 4 books. I have to give the .gov site kudos for unflappability: it didn’t lose info if you had to backtrack in the maze, and it developed an autofill button from your login, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}