Sentences with phrase «like public domain works»

Not exact matches

Between Manybooks and Feedbooks.com, I downloaded about 80 public - domain works, ranging from literary classics by Austen, Thoreau, Twain and others to childhood favorites like the «Anne of Green Gables» books **, The Wizard of Oz, and Pollyanna.

In many ways, Kindle Worlds looks like you get the worst of both worlds — lose the community and feedback and audience and the chance to write exactly what you want without oversight or marketing concerns that you have when you write fanfic, but totally lose rights to your work (so you don't even have the grey - area maybe - fair - use - maybe - not rights of a fanfic writer right now) and get far, far less money than you would trying to sell original works or public domain fic.

Save for the «Hunger Games» trilogy, most of the titles in the Literature & Fiction category are from little - known authors, or are public - domain works like «Les Miserables.»

Even public - domain classics like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Dracula have been adapted and passed off as original works.

The British award, which helped establish the careers of top artists like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, has pushed contemporary art into the public domain, although opinion over the quality of works on display has always been sharply divided.

Well it's technically very difficult if not impossible to put a work into the public domain early, but a copyright holder can always release it under something like the CC0 license.

In this case the plaintiff, Robinson, took inspiration from the public domain work, Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, first published in 1719, and drew detailed sketches and storyboards, wrote scripts and synopses, and designed promotional materials for a character, «Robinson Curiosity», who like Defoe's character, lives on a tropical island and must learn to interact with others who may come to the island.