Sentences with phrase «of public domain works»

But then i got lazy and now use it as a library of public domain works — classics, indie authors and even some well - known modern authors who have made their works accessible.

Honestly, the more reactions I see the more I think that those fanfic writers who want to make money by writing are already trying — by writing original fic alongside it, or sometimes by filing the serial numbers off their fanworks, or by writing fanfic of public domain works.

But Gutenberg and fanfic have been around for a long time and new books have still been traditionally published (and I still pay for print editions of public domain works).

But after much litigation over the ownership of public domain works, Google decided to the other route, and deal with publishers, and authors directly to sell copyrighted work and get a take.

Thousands of public domain works are available for free, and blogs afford us a staggering array of high - quality writing.

Immediately after the law came into force, a digital publisher of public domain works, Eric Eldred, filed a lawsuit challenging the act.

Go to the original public domain source, as any adaptation of a public domain work may have a new copyright in it and may still be protected by copyright.

Just for the hell of it, I bought the free version of the public domain work he is charging $ 30 for.

Not exact matches

Changes to copyright law in 1998 greatly extended the rights of authors and, as a result, few works entered the public domain in the United States for two decades.

Perhaps it would seem overly didactic to spell them out, or too much an intrusion of private judgments into a work directed to the public domain.

Public domain refers to the body of creative works and knowledge in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary interest such as a copyright.

With a significant lack of clarity on SPL information — out in the public domain or through work — Martin decided to create his very own spreadsheet to map out the various scenarios and processes.

I am against extension of copyright protection terms and software patents, I support declaring not published for a long time works a public domain.

From the Ghanaian home, the misdeed of corrupting, in all its facets, is carried out to the work place; to the school; to the church... to the public domain.

«If all the authors of a paper are NASA employees, then he's probably right that the work would be public domain,» says David Schulz, a lawyer with Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP in Washington, D.C. (who also advises ScienceInsider on legal issues).

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.

Chertkov believes that Tolstoy's work belongs in the public domain and should belong to the people of Russia, whereas Sofya believes the works should be kept in the family so that the next generations may be looked after.

* The work of the creator has been in the the public domain since 1962, so there will be no copyright issues * Suggested use: Pupils choose up to 9 words from the list and play the Bingo game as the text is read out.

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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.

They are a purposeful and thoughtful compilation of pre-existing materials in the public domain, state department of education websites, and original work.

Although the works of Tolstoy are public domain, you wouldn't just put a sticker over the publisher's name in the new Penguin edition and try to resell it as your own work, would you?

After that we're working on a series of annotated public domain books.

This coming January 1, Europeans will see a nice list of great works entering the public domain as their copyright -LSB-...]

It is quite debated how many of these titles are public domain works, but Kobo once told me that it is around 1/4.

Many writers are already fearful enough of baring their souls and skills in the public domain without being chastised for the quality of their work as they begin their writing journey.

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.

Project Gutenberg has an extensive library of free, public domain (or merely out of copyright) works that are easily transferred and read on the reader.

Thing is, any public domain work you've probably ever heard of has probably already been scanned and is available, though without, perhaps, being formatted specifically for the Readers.

One of the first sites that operates through user - interest dollars was Unglue.it, who as early as 2011 was working to solicit donations to take existing books and basically «unglue» the copyright status; for enough donations, the rights» holder — either the publisher, the author, or the author's estate — would be compensated to release the book into public domain.

Image Credit: Public reproduction of «The Muses Garden» by Lionel Noel Roye (Public Domain work of art)

And while all of the ebooks we feature and the cover art we draw from are already believed to be in the public domain in the US, Standard Ebooks releases all of the work we put in to each ebook into the public domain too.

Project Gutenberg is a web - based electronic re-publisher of (primarily) public domain works.

And many of them are free, since I'm a fan of old - school work available under public domain.

This project works to bring public domain books into the digital age, and the best part is many of these titles are now available for the iPad for free.

Verification of your publishing rights: You have to confirm that you own the copyright in what you're publishing, or otherwise indicate you're uploading a public domain work.

Dedicating the work Standard Ebooks produces to the public domain is our small way of letting the world know how important it is to fight that.

Several decades after the death of an author, a work goes into the public domain, which means it's available for public use.

While some think we could, or even should, release our work with some kind of copyright notice, instead Standard Ebooks dedicates the entirety of each of our ebook files, including markup, cover art, and everything in between, to the public domain.

Free public domain book PDFs: If you're interested in a source for over 19,000 public domain books that you can access for free in several different formats, hundreds of volunteers have been working for a few decades on Project Gutenberg.

Despite its partnership with Google Books almost two years ago, giving On Demand access to two million of Google's public domain titles, there are currently only about 75 EBMs at work in locations around the country, with another 75 or so expected to be in use by the end of the year.

Some of the literary works offered on the Service have been identified as being in the public domain by certain content providers.

Manuel Ortiz Braschi has published thousands of ebooks on Amazon, often claiming as his own works in the public domain, including Alice in Wonderland.

If you do not reside in the relevant jurisdiction for which the public domain designation has been made, it is your responsibility to check the laws of your country of residence prior to downloading or accessing such literary works.

For example, one of the special deals touts the classic Zane Grey western — «Riders of the Purple Sage» — for just $ 2.99, though the work is now in the public domain, and you can already find a free edition elsewhere in the Kindle store.

«Apart from that, adding any license to a work that has been in the public domain (Gutenberg died in 1468) is questionable in terms of copyright law.

The e-book reader works with ePub and PDF files; you can buy them from Entourage's own e-book store, which includes some New York Times bestsellers, plus $ 3 and $ 4 copies of public domain books that you're better off downloading from Project Gutenberg for free.

Public domain classics are the easiest books to find in ebook format, largely thanks to the sterling and visionary work of Project Gutenberg (and, more recently, the Open Library, which currently promises over a million free ebook titles).

If you go to the Web site using your Kindle and download the guide, you can then download a variety of Kindle - friendly books that are either in the public domain or were written by authors who want to distribute their works free of charge.

Though you could try to take public domain works and sell them under a different name as a part of an experiment, but I could see ways that that could backfire.