Sentences with phrase «digitizing of public domain»

Distributed Proofreaders was conceived in 2000 by Charles Franks to help in the digitizing of public domain books.

Distributed Proofreaders was launched in October 2000 by Charles Franks to help in the digitizing of public domain books.

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Project Gutenberg has since digitized thousands of novels in the public domain, and distributed them, largely in plain text, to millions of readers.

My personal experience the last twelve years in digitizing several public domain books has helped me to see a number of problems which I've mentioned in various forums, including the PG forums, and The eBook Community.

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.

1,500,000: Number of public domain books digitized that can be read free on a mobile device's web browser via Google Book Search.

Google has always been a major contender in the eBook format battle, but until now, it hasn't contributed its wealth of digitized public domain books to a specific side of the battle.

Within a week of MoMA's reinstall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art unveiled «Open Access»: a shift toward becoming an ostensible museum without borders, wherein the digitized catalogue of all public domain artworks from its collection, totaling more than 375,000 images — from Japanese woodblock prints, to studies by American modernist painter Arthur Dove, to Eugène Atget's gelatin silver prints of a Haussmann - izing Paris — are now accessible and downloadable to anyone with an Internet connection, anywhere, at any time.

> UK Throws A Copyright Crumb: Confirms That Digitized Copies Of Public Domain Images Are In The Public Domain techdirt > UK Intellectual Property Office: what is in the Public Domain must stay in the Public Domain communia

You want a copy of the public domain music but ABC Library insists you sign an agreement to not further reproduce or digitize the sheet music (their reason apparently... [more]

You want a copy of the public domain music but ABC Library insists you sign an agreement to not further reproduce or digitize the sheet music (their reason apparently is a desire to remain the exclusive source for the music in an effort to obtain funding for them to digitize their entire unique collection; alternatively, the library also seems to indicate, without providing details, that the donor of the print sheet music has placed restrictions on the use of the sheet music).

As such, since the materials in question are clearly public domain under federal copyright law, any attempt by a library to place restrictions on the use of this material would be unenforceable under the «federal pre-emption doctrine» (in addition, the library would not like not gain copyright in the pre-1923 music by merely digitizing it: Bridgeman Art Library v Corel, 36 F. Supp.

The nonprofit provides free public online access to various collections of digitized materials, including software applications / games, websites, movies and videos, music, moving images, as well as public - domain books.