Sentences with phrase «pieces of public domain»

As such, I don't think the ProCD case applies in my situation due to the qualitative differences between licensing CD - ROMs with vast amounts of information that has been compiled and which has value added search features added to it versus the «sale» of single copies of public domain sheet music (however, a library that creates and licenses for sale a CD - ROM with hundreds of individual pieces of public domain sheet music might be protected by the principles in ProCD since a court might recognize and protect the library's investment of time and money in creating the CD - ROM, but even in that situation, if the library is not otherwise adding value - added information above and beyond the public domain content, it is not obvious that ProCD applies).

In addition to criticisms of the quality of e-books being self published, meanwhile, there have also been complaints about an increase in e-book «spam» in the Amazon Kindle store, including books that are clearly just cobbled together from bits and pieces of public domain titles or even copyrighted works (Reuters reported recently that there are DVD instruction manuals that tell users how to write and publish dozens of e-books a day without having to write anything).

Not exact matches

The case hinges on questions of who owns a piece of data and the circumstances under which the information can be viewed as residing in the public domain, accessible by all and sundry.

Oh, and we have bit and pieces of it that aren't out in the public domain.

But for those of you uninterested in buying and reading the book, you can actually find a similar - minded opinion piece by Crichton criticizing climate science (and everything from SETI and the «Drake Equation» to Carl Sagan in the process) here in the public domain.

I can't say categorically that I cross-license all my code here into the public domain, because code in my answers is frequently a «derivative work» of code from the question, and of course I can't re-license OPs» work without their permission; but suffice it to say, if you take code that I post here and adapt it for use in a non-trivial program of which my code is a trivial or incidental piece, then please don't worry about my rights under CC BY - SA.

I have been quite silent as a SLAW poster due to research I am conducting on early Canadian ragtime sheet music (circa 1899 - 1920) and have been trying to assess the possible public domain status of several pieces of sheet music.