Sentences with phrase «projects in the public domain»

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Through that perspective the project examined the scope of the public domain in science, emphasizing equity in access to the benefits of science, and encouraging broad participation in deliberations on matters of intellectual property policy.

The stories, from an online repository of books in the public domain called Project Gutenberg, fell into one of six genres: mystery, humor, fantasy, horror, western, and science fiction.

To speed their findings into the public domain and make them available for use in drug testing, members of the project have agreed to post new results in a public database and forgo some patent and authorship claims.

It only accesses public domain books on Project Gutenberg, which Stanza can do in addition to opening other files.

Project Gutenberg has since digitized thousands of novels in the public domain, and distributed them, largely in plain text, to millions of readers.

The plugin integrates with Project Gutenberg, a non-profit that makes books in the public domain available for free download via their website.

While most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are in the public domain there many that are copyrighted for a variety of reasons.

As you may know, Project Gutenberg of Europe just celebrated the completion of their 400th eBook, and I think you will be greatly surprised to find out how many of these are included in the U.S. public domain listings.

There will be one particularly noticeable change, in that eBooks from Project Gutenberg of Europe that appear in both the listing of PG of Europe and the US public domain listings will now be in a mode that subtracts out the duplications.

At this point, Studio Tendra has done eleven covers: the six books of the Knights and Necromancers series, four books in a series of annotated public domain books (which I'll tell you all about in a few weeks» time), and one in an aborted project you probably will never hear anything more about.

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.

For older works in the public domain, Project Gutenberg is the grandaddy, though there are numerous sources.

To see if it's still alive at all, I poked around the major public domain sites and found the following: Project Gutenberg: I can't find any ebooks in PDF format on their site.

Of course, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain and available from such sources as Project Gutenberg, but now Simon & Schuster is launching a complete edition that has the benefit of professional editing.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Before you start an audiobook project, you must exercise due diligence to determine whether a work is under copyright or in the public domain.

While that probably includes a lot public domain filler from Project Gutenberg and Google Books, there are at least a few best - sellers (Twilight, In Defense of Food, John Adams, etc.) on the list as well.

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).

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.

(This is in addition to the millions of free public domain e-books available at Project Gutenberg and other places that can be read on a Kindle or any other e-book reader.)

Other projects announced as part of today's initiatives include the New York Public Library developing an e-reader app that will provide access to «a universe of digital books, including contributions from publishers and hundreds of classics already in the public domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families&rPublic Library developing an e-reader app that will provide access to «a universe of digital books, including contributions from publishers and hundreds of classics already in the public domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families&rpublic domain, to create a book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families».

Many books in the public domain (which is anything written before 1923) can probably be found on the Project Gutenberg website.

Project Gutenberg is a mother of all public domain books in digital format.

Amazon has over 300,000 titles in their Kindle store, and Barnes & Nobles, which recently announced their own online bookstore, has over 700,000 titles, out of which more than 500,000 are public domain, also powered by the Google Books project.

If you prefer to get e-books from other sources in addition to Amazon (for example, Project Gutenberg has thousands of free, public - domain classic e-books), and if you're the type of person who likes to organize and back up all your computer files, you may want to consider downloading the free program Calibre.

For books published in the U.S. before 1923 and other books in the public domain, there is Project Gutenberg.

There are also many services, such as Project Gutenberg, that make e-books available for free downloads, usually because the titles are in the public domain.

Project Gutenberg website — click here to read that post — this is the first site ever devoted to free eBooks, featuring books in the public domain.

The project helps to address the serious issue of the shrinking number of works freely available in the public domain.

The site's purpose is to bring public domain books from sites like Project Gutenberg into a form easily readable in a web browser.

Whatever the needs, make sure to keep in mind both the Kindle eText rental service and public domain titles available through the Kindle Store (or just Project Gutenberg) for free.

But in a sense, it was a partnership with the BBC that so prominently pushed the project into the public domain: the Your Paintings website, which was hosted by bbc.co.uk and which has now been superseded by artuk.org, showed the imaginative potential of such a public catalogue for curators, art professionals, and above all the wider public.

In 2016 and 2014, he designed billboards for LAXART's Public Domain Project, which were displayed on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood and La Cienega Boulevard in Culver CitIn 2016 and 2014, he designed billboards for LAXART's Public Domain Project, which were displayed on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood and La Cienega Boulevard in Culver Citin West Hollywood and La Cienega Boulevard in Culver Citin Culver City.

26 Mar 1997 Frances Hegarty And Andrew Stones Win Nissan Art Project The first Nissan Art Project, a major new competition to create art in the public domain, has been awarded to Irish - born artist Frances Hegarty and British installation artist Andrew Stones.

Currently on view at LAXART, Los Angeles is a solo exhibition by Sam Falls including two concurrent outdoor projects with Los Angeles Public Domain (L.A.P.D.), a public sculpture in Plummer Park and a billboard on La CiPublic Domain (L.A.P.D.), a public sculpture in Plummer Park and a billboard on La Cipublic sculpture in Plummer Park and a billboard on La Cienega.

Currently on view at LAXART, Los Angeles is a solo exhibition by Sam Falls including two concurrent outdoor projects with Los Angeles Public Domain (L.A.P.D.), a public sculpture in Plummer Park and a billboPublic Domain (L.A.P.D.), a public sculpture in Plummer Park and a billbopublic sculpture in Plummer Park and a billboard...

We initiate public art projects in the US and abroad placing large - scale works in the public domain for both permanent and temporary installations, in such locations as New York City, London, Boston, San Diego, Miami, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Dallas.

The show includes models, sculptures, drawings and projects by Spencer Finch, Anish Kapoor, Ai Weiwei, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Weiner, Shirazeh Houshiary and Lee Ufan, among others, all of whom have made signifcant contributions to art in the public domain through works that challenge, complement or elucidate their surroundings.

03 Dec 1998 Ghost Ship to appear in February 1999 «Ghost Ship», sculptor Dorothy Cross's winning entry for the current Nissan Art Project for art in the public domain, will be realised in Scotsman's Bay, Dun Laoghaire, in February 1999.

I agree that anything that comes from the public purse should be public domain but in practice projects also draw funds from corporations and individuals.

He then put the instructions into the public domain by co-founding the Electric Auto Association Plug - In Hybrid project.

For more than 25 years, our attorneys have represented public entities as they undertake public construction projects, such as firehouses, community buildings, park development or road paving, and we've guided them in eminent domain actions and tax exemptions for park and publicly owned properties.

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.

This article begins by presenting some examples of organizations dedicated to law practiced in the public interest followed by a few interesting projects in this domain.

The project will develop in two stages — first, a comprehensive registry of works by Canadian creators that are in the public domain will be established.

Illustrations from divers public domain works (i.e., not themselves pirated) via Project Gutenberg, in particular:

I always thought the Internet was developed by the Department of Defense as the ARPANET project, therefore it should be in the public domain.

The ground - breaking project — the most comprehensive of its kind in Canada — will create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian public domain.

The Public Utility and Resolution Bills will draw focus on streamlining conflicts in the infrastructure domain, and architect a credit rating system for infrastructure projects.

Thus the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have essentially eliminated important public interest projects such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent Busting Project, which uses inter and ex parte reexamination proceedings to challenge and defend against patents that potentially infringe on the public domain.45 In this way, the Patent Reform Act of 2007 would have failed to replace the current reexamination processes with an adequate form of post grant review.

Once Project Zero's 90 - day deadline passes, details of vulnerabilities found in systems are automatically released into the public domain.