Sentences with phrase «take public domain»

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.

I'd like to take some public domain government documents on my kindle.

They've even been known to take public domain works and charge for them.

Instead, iClassics is taking the public domain classics and only selecting titles that actually stand to benefit from being a little less dry, a little more entertaining.

PP&Z was a fun romp but the originality quickly wore thin as SGS and others took public domain books and reframed them with one sort of monster or another.

He made his reputation by taking public domain works and re-inventing them.

This takes public domain data provided by the Met Services, homogenises it and makes a correction for urban warming based on nearby rural stations.

Not exact matches

«I took it very, very seriously and quickly realized that this was even tougher than any of the other challenges in the public domain because it was my hometown, and it was my school,» says Alexander.

With domain hosting business GoDaddy set to go public this week, there's no time better than now to take a look back at a slew of Super Bowl ads that had people talking for days after.

Texas eminent domain lawyer Luke Ellis, told the Houston Chronicle: «The public interest question surrounding exports provides an opening to challenge land takings in court, and is almost certainly on the minds of pipeline executives.»

Like anyone along the route of proposed oil or gas pipelines, Rosinski was in a position where, had she not signed the agreement, her land would have been taken anyway by virtue of eminent domain — a right the government can assert to seize private property for public use.

People who truly want to keep it out of the public domain don't take out billboards to push their system.

You could also take some of the products of these programs out of the public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get public domain (if they are in the public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get public domain) and charge royalties (or higher royalties) to cable and digital TV and radio services, satellite radio services, etc. (which are required to carry Corporation for Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get Public Broadcasting content under current regulations) and might even get those companies to do so by contract with PBS, NPR, etc. rather than from the government, if this was authorized by law (I don't know if it is or not, but this wouldn't take much political clout to get done).

In order for women to be effectively represented in the political domain, they must also be adequately represented in the public discussion of political affairs that takes place in the news media.

«Anybody who had headed any organisation in the country, whether as a Minister of State or Chief Executive of a public institution would have taken hundreds of decisions which could easily make one a subject of investigations whether legitimately or otherwise but this should not necessarily warrant placement in the public domain since we are all clear about its near irredeemable effect on reputations.

It is like eminent domain, enshrined in the Fifth Amendment — in which the government pays fair - market value for property it takes for public use.

We believe that when names of those who, by their wicked inactions, successfully helped the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to come to power are put out in the public domain, leaders and prospective executives in the party would take note and be guided by this lesson.

Often it will take 24 or 48 hours before a full, nuanced version of what happens gets out into the public domain.

Given the devastating power of eminent domain, there must be a true public purpose before even considering taking someone's private property.

«It is therefore necessary that as the major opposition party, the PDP under my leadership takes up this challenge in order to put the records straight and put some facts and figures in the public domain for the sake of prosperity», Adagunodo said.

Eminent domain — ask the average person what it means, and he is likely to think of the government taking property for a high public purpose — a school, park, highway or library.

«Until after the Christmas, when we are taking stock to assess our performance, we may not be able to able to put in the public domain whether some people were arrested for having used the fire crackers or having been seen in possession of the firecrackers,» he stated.

Indeed, when the U.K. government considered repealing Section 24 more than 10 years ago, then — Science Minister David Sainsbury said the biggest concern was «the question of penalties for people who improperly put that information into the public domain» and taking a tough stance against «animal terrorism.»

I had to bite my lip and wait 18 months — the length of time it takes a patent to enter the public domain — before I could publish my main research project or even discuss it outside the lab.

Image of «Chromatin» was taken from Wikipedia and redistributed freely as it is in the public domain.

Image of «Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer to Create Dolly» was taken from Wikipedia and redistributed freely as it is in the public domain.

After circulating for years in poor, public - domain prints, the film has been reissued by Kino (Blu - ray; $ 29.95; DVD, $ 24.95; not rated) in a high - definition transfer taken from a print restored by the Academy Film Archive.

The course objectives are very simple: * Every student talking in English * Every student listening to and understanding English * Every student thinking in English, and * Every student taking part in class Talk a Lot Elementary Book 3 is suitable for students at these levels: Student's Level: Common European Framework (CEF): Cambridge Assessment: Elementary to A2 KET Pre-Intermediate to B1 PET Original book was free in the public domain.

I took into account the need for simple text, clear font and I only have used self made resources and public domain resources, I have not used images from the books.

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.

The Walton - funded New York Charter School Association, which takes considerable public money and advertises itself as «independently - run public schools,» refused state audits, arguing that they were run by boards outside the public domain.

Graduates of the program will take key positions in corporations and private and public universities and schools; they will become designers, developers, and evaluators of educational technologies and learning environments as well as domain experts, learning technology policy - makers, or Chief Learning Officers.

Personally, I don't think it will take nearly 40 years to make eBooks of all of the public domain books, newspapers and magazines, etc., that are easy to find, not to forget to add in music, artworks, etc..

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.

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.

For example, Project Gutenberg, a major producer of public - domain ebooks, hosts epub and Kindle files that sometimes lack basic typographic necessities like curly quotes; some of those ebooks are automatically generated and can't take full advantage of modern ereader technology like popup footnotes or popup tables of contents; they sometimes lack niceties like cover images and title pages; and the quality of individual ebook productions varies greatly.

McGuire's talk, «Small Pieces, Loosely Joined»: How Making Open Textbooks (Could Be) Like Making Public Domain Audiobooks,» will take place at 11 a.m. PST Friday, Nov. 20.

Taking advantage of the immense amount of public domain (or free) content has not always been the priority of the manufacturers.

Today, KindleFireHD.com is a blank web page and is registered anonymously through Go Daddy's Domains By Proxy service, but it takes only a few simple steps using Go Daddy's public account retrieval system to figure out who is behind the domain.

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.

Librivox is the definitive site for free audiobooks — It takes books in the public domain and turns them into audio books.

And set up permanent links on the left side of my blog that take you to either the non-public domain or just the public domain free books, both with complete category lists intact (finding a book in those 7K + public domain books can be daunting, otherwise).

All these tips make it sound as though we are all stupid and can't take a photo, or add text or even choose a Public Domain photo to use.

Other websites take the illustrations out of these public domain books such as The Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sellpublic domain books such as The Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then selldomain books such as The Public Domain Treasure Hunter and then sellPublic Domain Treasure Hunter and then sellDomain Treasure Hunter and then sell them.

Self - publishing is obviously taking off, but statistics on new titles are almost impossible to come by because so many books counted as part of «nontraditional» publishing include reprints of old books now in the public domain.

So, they will not allow us to publish our own takes on them — even though they are clearly public domain — unless we make them our own.

Winning the war for the future of publishing is going to take a lot more than just offering free public domain books.

The effectiveness of the $ 9.99 boycott is that there were always less than 10 (and usually less than 5) books priced over $ 9.99 in the Top 100 bestsellers chart — even before free and public domain took over.

To read about the titles by authors such as Issac Asimov, Ian Fleming, Rachael Carson, and Martin Luther King that could have been freely available, take a look at the Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain website.

For some reason, this logic does not transfer to the domain of public stock ownership, possibly because this aspect of asset ownership is not taken into account.