This may be a generic notice if they also copy items where the copyright is still viable, and it's a nuisance for them to make a determination which things are
now out of copyright.
A lot of classic titles,
now out of copyright, are free and you can pick up modern classics like H.G. Wells» The War of The Worlds for # 2.68.
Not exact matches
As it * appears * to operate
now, it's more like a collection
of out of copyright / free books, with some paid ones as well.
And as I've said
now at least four times... regardless
of this
copyright law, when we are
out of stock per the term
of our contract, we have to revert the rights when requested... no ifs ands or buts... unless we are still selling an agreed upon threshold
of ebooks.
I didn't catch the title
of that book, but it sounds like one
of the above - mentioned, you know, free,
out -
of -
copyright public domain books, many
of which were, in fact, scanned by Google, which their — they have these huge processes underway
now.
As you know, there are many classic books
out there which are
now, because
of their age,
out of copyright, and it is wonderful to be able to read them.
Millions
of out -
of -
copyright books can
now be used on them, she said.
Some contracts
now define «in print» as being related to a certain amount
of revenue per year rather than just availability from the publisher: «that if the book goes
out of print then the
copyright does go back to the author immediately under the current system.»
Kathryn Goldman:
Copyright law is one
of the most international laws that is
out there right
now because
of the Berne Convention.
Millions
of free,
out -
of -
copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle devices, and Kindle customers can
now borrow Kindle books from their public library.
The New York Public Library announced 180,000
out -
of -
copyright images and materials are
now free for downloading.
While the US
copyright office
now supports the idea, and famous artists including Chuck Close and Frank Stella have come
out in favor
of it, Sotheby's and Christie's have begun spending significant amounts
of money to lobby against it, the New York Times reported over the weekend.
(E.g., Bach is presumably
out of copyright now.)
In a related case
now on cert to the Supreme Court, Kahle v. Gonzales, the issue is Congress's change from an opt - in system
of copyright to an opt -
out system
of copyright.
Until
now, a group
of multinational record labels has done most
of the talking about what Canadian artists need
out of copyright.
Now, you too can help, by adopting one
of the 300 volumes
of the First Series
of the Federal Reporter, which are all
out of copyright.
Then on Saturday, Ann Bartow at the Feminist Law Professors blog picked
out the person at the far right as Julie E. Cohen, then supervising editor
of the law review and
now professor at Georgetown University Law Center known for her work on the intersection
of copyright and privacy rights.
In the mid-90s the University
of Montreal, which
now operates the Canadian Legal Information Institute, set
out to remove
copyright limits on the distribution
of law.
If you are not interested in these developments then you likely do not have someone close to you in university in Canada nor are you interested in
copyright, fair dealing or open access, that last one should be a hook for many that haven't paid attention up until
now because, as my Slaw colleague Michael Lines pointed
out back in April, this model deal is a swipe against the the free flow
of information and an attempt to cut open access off at the pass, so to speak.