Sentences with phrase «take public domain works»

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

Faced with an absence of information within a provenance, and having taken into account this policy and considered the research undertaken in accordance with the Gallery's codification of procedures for due diligence, the Gallery may from time to time elect to bring a work into the public domain through exhibition, in such circumstances where the Gallery can demonstrate the highest standard of due diligence has been undertaken and consideration has been given to the view of the current possessor, in belief that such display may encourage other legitimate claimants to make known their interest.

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.

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.