For example, sneaking into an office to acquire a copy
of public domain material is not copyright infringement, but is likely an offense (e.g. trespassing).
By punishing your own serious and honest users from accessing this impressive collection
of public domain material, you are merely trying to divert attention from the very few copyright violations which deserve serious attention.
Not exact matches
It draws on the content
of the book The Handbook for the Postnatal Period, by Dr Diane S Speier, and will be constantly updated with new
material based on the latest research and various sources
of information in the
public domain.
«SERAP considers that there is enough
material in the
public domain to suggest that over $ 2 billion meant for purchase
of arms to equip Nigerians soldiers fighting Boko Haram in the North East
of the country was diverted and shared among high - ranging government and party officials under your watch as President and Commander - in - Chief
of Nigerian Armed Forces.»
This article incorporates
public domain material from the Biographical Directory
of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.
The historian and artist Pehr Arvid Säve collected historical
materials of local importance during the 19th century,
materials that are now in the
public domain.
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.
SB 1784 by Sen. Larry Taylor / Rep. Dan Huberty clarifies the definition
of «open - source instructional
material» to refer to resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, including courses, course
materials, modules, textbooks, videos tests, software and other
materials used to support access to knowledge.
They are a purposeful and thoughtful compilation
of pre-existing
materials in the
public domain, state department
of education websites, and original work.
Now a part
of Random House, Everyman's Library produces old - fashioned, colored cloth hardback books (complete with ribbon markers and sewn bindings) and are able to keep costs low by printing
material that is largely in the
public domain.
Extending the term
of copyright on
public domain works is a terrible idea, as we learned with the Sonny Bono Copyright Act in 1998: the main effects
of taking
material out
of the
public domain and putting it back in copyright was to enrich large publishing businesses at the expense
of scholarship, archiving, librarianship, education and access, while dooming enormous chunks
of our collective culture to be «orphan works,» with no discoverable owner, likely to have every known copy disappear or disintegrate before they re-entered the
public domain and could be reissued.
Plus, some
of this
material may NOT be in the
public domain and could prompt a copyright infringement lawsuit.
We really like it for converting books downloaded from other sources, like Project Gutenberg, which has tonnes
of free reading
material in the
public domain, or Humble Bundle.
Even the most conservative math indicates that the
public -
domain offerings make up more than half
of the Nook's content stockpile
of reading
material.
Copyright and
Public Domain All material appearing in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna is in the public domain, unless noted with the copyright symbol ©, and may be reproduced or copied without permi
Public Domain All material appearing in the Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna is in the public domain, unless noted with the copyright symbol ©, and may be reproduced or copied without permi
Domain All
material appearing in the Journal
of Fish and Wildlife Management and North American Fauna is in the
public domain, unless noted with the copyright symbol ©, and may be reproduced or copied without permi
public domain, unless noted with the copyright symbol ©, and may be reproduced or copied without permi
domain, unless noted with the copyright symbol ©, and may be reproduced or copied without permission.
She freely mines the
public domain for high and low brow images, respectively making videos that have consisted
of YouTube footage
of material shot live on mobile phone cameras during the aftermath
of the Egyptian revolution, excerpts from bootleg copies
of popular Egyptian films from the 1950s to the present and a remake
of a single iconic image lifted from an experimental French film dubbed with a futuristic account
of a different place.
Oliver Laric created stock video footage
of the fair and published it as free
public domain material
He assembled a set
of 22 CD - ROM disks containing
public -
domain versions
of various books and educational
materials such as the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica, Robinson Crusoe and McGuffey's Readers, which the family now markets as a home - schooling kit.
Over the past six months, a series
of workshops and symposia have explored the so - called Law.gov campaign, an effort to put all U.S. primary legal
materials in the
public domain.
Our project will mix
public domain portions
of the 19th edition with newly - created
material that implements the Bluebook's system
of citation in a fully usable form.
You do not have to comply with the license for elements
of the
material in the
public domain or (if) where your use (it) is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation.
Material in the
public domain is 100 % searchable, readable on line and, typically, capable
of being downloaded in PDF.
In addition, the Committee took into account the likelihood
of putting government law - related information into the
public domain would provide better incentives for private publishers to publish value - added
material:
The act
of posting the
material took place some five months before the victim was shown the photograph (the stage that the harassment, alarm or distress took place) but the fact that the
material was no longer in the
public domain at that point did not afford S a defence.
LNC makes no claim to ownership
of copyright in text that is in the
public domain or is subject to Crown Copyright, but you agree nevertheless not to download, print or use such
materials except in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein.
This is primarily a cost - avoidance strategy, to avoid the costs to business
of a constantly increasing copyright term, or alternately the cost
of fighting an extension
of the lifetime
of copyright, and finally
of the legal costs
of deciding whether
material can regain copyright after once becoming part
of the
public domain.
However, settlement could make civil action less likely (or at least less likely to be successful), than were a contested criminal trial to take place, by reducing the volume
of material entering into the
public domain as compared to a full trial
of the facts.
The brunt
of Klinger's effort in his claim has to do with a demonstration that these identifiable elements came into existence long before the ten late stories, i.e. within
material otherwise and ostensibly in the
public domain, and that some or most
of these features are scarcely represented within those late stories.
They may be happy to use it as a traditional print casebook (those hard bound books do look good on a young lawyer's bookshelf); they may prefer to make it available to their students electronically; they may wish to insert their own teaching notes into our content and then provide their students with either a print, electronic or hybrid version
of the teaching
material; or they may wish to supplement a principal resource (such as casebook) with other proprietary
material (such as text from a doctrinal work) or
public domain material (via links to cases, statutes and other resources).
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.
Before using any
material you believe is in the
public domain, you should investigate the copyright status
of the work, at least to establish whom to credit even if formal permission is not required.
The ABA ethics committee concluded that the lawyer may properly take copies
of research or CLE
materials, pleadings, and form or template documents «to the extent they are prepared by the lawyer» and / or could be «considered in the
public domain.
I'm not impressed with the archivists» solution
of making Canada's heritage available one TIFF page at a time, given that this
material should be both accessible and
public domain.
In addition, McKennitt enhanced this ability by rejecting the concept
of zones
of private life, whereby a person forfeits his right to privacy in one area
of his life, by putting some related
material into the
public domain.
I won't continue to emphasize my ignorance
of this topic by saying anymore other than saying that any method that makes Canadian
public domain material more accessible is welcome.
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.
Submission
of a video constitutes your representation and warranty that all sounds, words, text, images, music, or other
material included is original or in the
public domain, has not been published, broadcast, or otherwise publicly distributed previously, and does not infringe and is not subject to any claim that it violates the intellectual property or other rights
of any third party.
Don't use third - party works in your business
materials unless those works are in the
public domain, or you obtain permission from the copyright owner, and your use falls within the scope
of that permission.