Taking advantage of the immense
amount of public domain (or free) content has not always been the priority of the manufacturers.
Not exact matches
Since then, Google has been shoveling increasing
amounts of money into government lobbying, but has been notably quieter in the
public domain on such issues.
This work does contain
public domain material, but it has taken a considerable
amount of time to change these into attractive, informative documents for children.
Michael decided to use this huge
amount of computer time to search the
public domain books that were stored in our libraries, and to digitize these books.
A large percent
of the Kobo ebook library is mainly open source or
public domain books which they give away for free or charge very low
amounts.
The first year, we could only read the free content, which at the time
amounted to a lot
of public domain classics.
From what I can see, virtually all
of «your» books consist
of public domain texts to which you have added some (unknown)
amount of original commentary.
Your attorneys greatly minimize the
amount of financial information that can make it into the
public domain.
As such, I don't think the ProCD case applies in my situation due to the qualitative differences between licensing CD - ROMs with vast
amounts of information that has been compiled and which has value added search features added to it versus the «sale»
of single copies
of public domain sheet music (however, a library that creates and licenses for sale a CD - ROM with hundreds
of individual pieces
of public domain sheet music might be protected by the principles in ProCD since a court might recognize and protect the library's investment
of time and money in creating the CD - ROM, but even in that situation, if the library is not otherwise adding value - added information above and beyond the
public domain content, it is not obvious that ProCD applies).
The only aspect
of the transaction that is in the
public domain is the transaction
amount and the hash — a code that is derived by running the transaction details through a cryptographic function.