In the world of too much copyright on one and too much copyright infringements on the other side
public domain books provide really nice oasis.
Not exact matches
As part of today's effort, the New York
Public Library is 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 fam
Public Library is 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 fam
public domain, to create a
book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families.
The eBook Store from Sony, together with Google, today announced it is
providing access to more than 1 million free
public domain books - from classics such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to biographies, historical...
Do not let anyone place images in your
book that have not been
provided and verified BY YOU (and your attorney, if necessary) as royalty - free and / or
public domain (
public domain does NOT mean «on the Internet»), and that have the proper model or property releases.
Luckily, there are numerous websites online dedicated to finding
public domain books and
providing readers with the latest titles to go on sale.
When you download the software and create an account, you also are
provided with a handful of free
books from the
public domain and a copy of the Merriam - Webster Pocket Dictionary.
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&r
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&r
public domain, to create a
book collection for students aged 4 - 18 from low - income families».
Both beSpacific and Creative Commons
provide pointers to the news reported on the blog Inside Google
Book Search that Google
Book Search now has copyright data for pre-1978
books, enabling users to determine whether
books are in the
public domain:
First, the
Public Domain status of case law means that whether the content is collected from court websites (like UC Berkeley's Free Law Project) or scanned from case
books (like Harvard's Free the Law project),
provided the copyrightable elements are stripped out, there are no lingering restrictions on use, re-use or further copying and distribution.
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).
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.