Publishers, product creators, and marketers successfully sell content that based
on public domain material, in whole or part, every single day!
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.
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.
Again, seek an attorney's help
on how to properly use quoted
material, gain written permissions for it, or confirm its
public domain status in order to help mitigate your legal risk.
Google said Thursday it will make
public -
domain books available
on its Web site — but said it would limit access to any copyrighted
material for now.
Today the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an update to their page about these treats; we're reprinting here this
public domain material to keep you updated
on this topic:
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.
Material in the
public domain is 100 % searchable, readable
on line and, typically, capable of being downloaded in PDF.
In short, it's a good idea to read the disclaimers
on the site before assuming
material posted there is
public domain.
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.
The Archive has won lawsuits to bring into the
public domain confidential
materials on the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran - Contra Affair and other historical controversies.
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.
This prohibition does not extend to
materials on the Website which are freely available for re-use or are in the
public domain.