To sum up: it is a mistake to
think of public domain books as an easy way to earn money.
Not exact matches
The matter erupted into the
public domain approximately two and a half years ago, when one
of the undercover officers, identified as Mark Kennedy, had second
thoughts and «changed sides» in the middle
of a long and expensive trial.
He said common sense tells us that you ask or go with the people who have already been to where you hope to get to, adding that unlike the NDC that has got people who are behind the scenes and doing the
thinking for the party, the current crop
of the NPP
think only those who are in the
public domain talking are good for winning election.
«I hope that now this information is in the
public domain it will entail both a downward pressure on overall expenditure and also make MPs
think twice about the environmental impact
of their journeys and how it could be lessened.»
«It is completely an unnecessary question but I
think it reflects the incompetence
of this government because the information the President calls a secret is actually in the
public domain.»
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.
What Trevor I
think misses, and what all the ultras like Rob and Atul can not face up to was that the dislike
of the typical New Labour MP which has been out there in the
public domain for a while had infected the internal party electorate also.
I
think that after November, we were talking internally, because there was a lot
of discussion out there in the
public domain about, what's the role
of the federal government, especially when it comes to advancing school choice.
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..
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.
While some
think we could, or even should, release our work with some kind
of copyright notice, instead Standard Ebooks dedicates the entirety
of each
of our ebook files, including markup, cover art, and everything in between, to the
public domain.
All
of our ebooks are texts that are
thought to be in the
public domain in the United States.
And while the mission
of LibriVox is, I
think, noble and good: «To make all
public domain books available in audio, for free on the Internet»...
** Oddly, neither Anne
of Windy Poplars nor Anne
of Ingleside is in
public domain in the U.S. I say «oddly,» since they are numbers 4 and 6
of an 8 - book series; logically, you would
think it would be books 7 and 8 which were not in
public domain.
Honestly, the more reactions I see the more I
think that those fanfic writers who want to make money by writing are already trying — by writing original fic alongside it, or sometimes by filing the serial numbers off their fanworks, or by writing fanfic
of public domain works.
As for the e-book store, I
think B&N and Kobo both have very good e-book stores (ahead
of Sony, Apple, and Google), but Amazon is still the undisputed leader, with the most titles available (ignore B&N's marketing talk
of having the «largest» e-book store: they count
public domain titles that Amazon doesn't, even though they are easily available for the Kindle as well).
I guess the fact that I bought shares in EBIX well after the short thesis was put into the
public domain should tell you what I
think of the short thesis.
In a
thought - provoking group show at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, entitled No, Trespassing, twelve artists examine the notion
of contemporary security systems and Big Brother's supervision
of the
public domain anew.
Think about eminent
domain, zoning, wetlands development regulations and the like, all
of which impose limitations in the name
of the common good and the
public interest.
The
public acceptance
of climate - change conspiracy transcends the typical wide - ranging
domain of conspiratorial belief; a 2013 investigation by Lewandowsky et al [8] found that while subjects who subscribed to conspiracist
thought tended to reject all scientific propositions they encountered, those with strong traits
of conservatism or pronounced free - market world views only tended towards rejecting scientific findings with regulatory implications at odds with their ideological position.
Ironically I'm
thinking maybe the
public domain movie subtitles are actually the only ones they legally «own», as they're not in the uncomfortable position
of working on top
of copyrighted data.
In summary, I
think variations
of the I (heart) NY logo are indeed in the
public domain, and I suspect the original logo may be as well.
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).
I
think that any publicly funded content should (within, say, 5 years
of its creation) be released to the
public domain.
For example, I
think that after a golfer swings in front
of a few people that might qualify as a
public disclosure and, therefore, make the swing
public domain and, therefore, un-patentable.
I
think it is quite reasonable that courts protect the CD - ROM developer in this case by prohibiting further copying
of the CD - ROM by customers in order to protect the investment
of time and cost the developer made in compiling the entire CD - ROM and to protect the «value - added» information the developer provides through the compilation
of public domain data.
I always
thought the Internet was developed by the Department
of Defense as the ARPANET project, therefore it should be in the
public domain.
Further to Simon's recent post on the possible establishment
of a «
public domain» registry / database: I
think this is great news if it happens.
For beyondblue, putting the issue
of everyday racial discrimination squarely in the
public domain and asking everyone to stop and
think about their actions is an effective way to create a
public discussion to trigger behavioural change.