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copyright works available online.
Kahle, through his foundation, is a main benefactor of the Internet Archive, and has long championed making out - of -
copyright works available to everyone (especially poor children) through digitization and print - on - demand.
About Blog The Public Domain Review is a not - for - profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out - of -
copyright works available online.
About Blog The Public Domain Review is a not - for - profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out - of -
copyright works available online.
The work is also freely available in MP3 format as an audiobook through Librivox, a volunteer project to make out - of -
copyright works available in audio format, at Librivox.org.
The work is also freely available in MP3 format as an audiobook through Librivox, a volunteer online project to make out - of -
copyright works available in audio format, at Librivox.org.
Not exact matches
Since the
works are long out of
copyright, they are freely
available in various electronic formats, including ones suitable for ebook readers, or can be read online at the Project Gutenberg webste at Gutenberg.org.
They could make more of their catalogue
available and support simplification of licensing, such as provision for licensing of orphan
works and making it easier for more deals to be struck through a Digital
Copyright Exchange.
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works of authorship, information, content, functional components, articles, software, downloads, upgrades, documentation, services, information and material appearing on, contained in, or made
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copyright law.
And this particular
work — it was authored in 1823; any
work authored prior to 1923 is
available as «fair use» to the public (free to use without permission); even according to current
copyright laws and as for any
work,
copyright expiration occurs 70 years after the author's death — in this case the author died in 1863, meaning his
copyright would have expired (if applying current laws) in 1933.
* The nature of the
copyrighted work (whether it is an artistic masterpiece or merely a laborious compilation of readily
available but voluminous data);
In these instances your
work will always contain your
Copyright notice, a link to obooko and the obooko logo to verify your
work has been made
available for wireless download from a legal source.
Authors whose
works are still in
copyright get paid to have their
works digitized and made
available online.
Some authors choose to put some of their
works available for free, still others the
copyright has run out on, and others make free eBooks in the hopes you will sign up for their services or pay for other books they've written.
The document,
available HERE, outlines not only the benefits to establishing
copyright guidelines for these estimated millions of writings, recordings, and photographs whose rights holders are currently unlocated, but also points out some faulty assumptions that current mandate the use of these
works.
There are some major name authors like Stephen King whose
works would now be
available for return to him, assuming he follows the confusing guidelines that the
copyright act spells out concerning timelines for notifying the publisher and such.
According to the U.S.
Copyright Law, «
Copyright protection is
available for all unpublished
works, regardless of the nationality or residence of the author.»
The
Copyright Office says (emphasis mine), «If registration is made within three months after publication of the work * or prior to an infringement of the work *, statutory damages and attorney's fees will be available to the copyright owner in court
Copyright Office says (emphasis mine), «If registration is made within three months after publication of the
work * or prior to an infringement of the
work *, statutory damages and attorney's fees will be
available to the
copyright owner in court
copyright owner in court actions.
What makes the iriver device a g - reader is the fact it connects to the Google ebookstore out - of - box, where many e-books are
available in the cloud and are accessible in - browser / in - app (except
copyright - protected
works).
Unsecured PDFs can quickly make their way to file sharing sites where illegal copies of
copyrighted works are
available for download.
There is also a vast reservoir (1.5 million - plus) of free public - domain
works (primarily books published before 1923 whose American
copyrights have expired)
available from a variety of sources.
The project has not always been everyone's favourite, but they have recently overcome some
copyright challenges, and are
working continuously on making information freely
available for everyone.
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I
work with online advertising companies, and a number of people I know in the industry get sued on a regular basis for
copyright or trademark infringement or spamming; most of these people still trust Swiss bank accounts, because it's still the best protection
available for their assets, and because Swiss banks haven't given up details on someone for spamming... yet.
Jean Baptiste Bayle has constructed a web site for downloading of hits played backwards to defeat
copyright laws, as well as a site of compilations of every cover
available of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson, and Paul Davis is part of the programming ensemble Beige, and is showing a
work comprised of cassette mix tapes along with their packaging design.
Many of the images in these collections are
available for reproduction and we hold a
copyright interest in any image of Henry Moore or his
works.
True, some older articles — especially those with enduring impact — have been made
available on third party websites, though it is often unclear whether this is being done with the consent (or temporary forbearance) of the
copyright holder, or simply being provided by enthusiasts who can not imagine that access to these
works is still legally restricted.
If the
available range of expression for a
copyrighted work is small, then
copyright protection for the
work is «thin» and proving infringement requires a showing of virtually identical copying.
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The Supreme Court has previously clarified that fee awards are
available regardless of whether the prevailing party is the plaintiff or defendant; generally, however, the
copyright owner must have registered the work with the US Copyright Office prior to the infringement in order to be eligible to reco
copyright owner must have registered the
work with the US
Copyright Office prior to the infringement in order to be eligible to reco
Copyright Office prior to the infringement in order to be eligible to recover fees.
You have a
copyright on your
work as soon as you make it
available, without any additional paperwork.
Under that regime, a claim of
copyright was necessary for a
copyright to be present and it was only
available for published
work, unlike current law under which a
copyright with minimal protections arises automatically by operation of law upon the creation of the
work.
For example, «scanlations» (which are fan driven translations of entire manga series using scans of the original Japanese or Korean language graphic novels, photoshopping out the original dialog, and then inserting translated dialog, prepared without compensation by the translators and made
available on the web), were silently tolerated for many years by the publishers of those
works, even though they are clear and obvious
copyright violations as derivative
works.
We
work with artists, architects, writers and photographers to determine their ownership rights and make the most of the
copyright protections
available.
(The publishers had been unable to establish that «they own valid
copyrights in parts of some of the 64
works in this case,» while in other instances, the press did not make licensing readily
available.)
Through licensing services
available to Canadian independent and tutorial schools, teachers can copy and share published material with their students, while also demonstrating respect for
copyright and the hard
work involved in producing material with pedagogical value.
The class action, which was filed in Quebec City and authorized on February 8, 2017 by the Quebec Court of Appeal, is intended to establish that Université Laval and its employees, as part of their teaching and research activities, infringed the patrimonial and moral rights recognized under the
Copyright Act by reproducing copyrighted literary, dramatic and artistic works, making them available and communicating them to the public without permission from the copyright owners or their representatives, by failing to identify the creators of the work and by infringing the integrity of
Copyright Act by reproducing
copyrighted literary, dramatic and artistic
works, making them
available and communicating them to the public without permission from the
copyright owners or their representatives, by failing to identify the creators of the work and by infringing the integrity of
copyright owners or their representatives, by failing to identify the creators of the
work and by infringing the integrity of the
work.
In addition, the German
Copyright Act states that a duplication of protected
work produced for private use is only allowed, if the template used for the duplication was not evidently illegally produced or made
available to the public.
«I am satisfied that certified copies of plans of survey made
available to members of the public under the statutory scheme are
works published under the «direction or control» of the Crown for the purposes of s. 12 of the
Copyright Act,» Justice David Doherty wrote in the decision.
«By extending it to any
work that the Crown makes publicly
available, the Crown has been inappropriately given
copyright in all sorts of
works for which it ought to have no claim.»
Educational institutions are also permitted to make use of
works protected by
copyright if they are done on the premises of an educational institution for educational or training purposes, provided there are no suitable substitutes
available in the commercial marketplace.