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Copyright Subject Searching on LegalTrac

By Michelle Buhalo •  April 23, 2014

Celebrate World Book and Copyright Day on April 23! UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, has dedicated April 23 to books and copyright since 1995. This day is devoted to the power of books and the dissemination of knowledge.

LegalTrac has indexed and organized by subject over 1.7 million articles located in over 1400 legal periodicals. A team of editors reviews each article and assigns it various subject classifications based on Library of Congress subject headings, people, companies and organizations, places, products, and more. This allows users to browse and search LegalTrac efficiently by topic. Subject classifications are wide-ranging and include copyright, real estate, securities, torts, and trusts.

Some copyright related subjects on LegalTrac include "copyright law", "fair use", "orphan works", and "public domain". LegalTrac also breaks subjects into subdivisions. For example, the subject "copyright law" has over 40 subdivisions, including cases, comparative analysis, evaluation, history, interpretation and construction, practice, remedies, and usage.

LegalTrac is a membership resource available to all members.

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