Sentences with phrase «works in the public domain»

Note: Only works in the public domain may be made into audiobooks in this way.

I partially fulfilled that dream in 2014 when I used works in the public domain to start Jewel Audiobooks, my audiobook publishing company.

If you're into reading classics, you'll find that many works in the public domain are available as free ebooks.

Manuel Ortiz Braschi has published thousands of ebooks on Amazon, often claiming as his own works in the public domain, including Alice in Wonderland.

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

The only books I publish myself are my own or works in the public domain.

B&N's official number is over a million, but half of those are works in the public domain.

The Internet Archive: The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of works in the public domain.

Crucially, they were also expected to seek permission to install their work in the public domain, breeding both confidence and an abiding interest in context and site - specific work.

A centerpiece of the residency is the open studio, a centrally located studio space that is part of the school's main gallery where the resident carries out work in a public domain.

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.

In Canada, the focus is on works in the public domain, so the copyright controversy is not an issue.

Not exact matches

Changes to copyright law in 1998 greatly extended the rights of authors and, as a result, few works entered the public domain in the United States for two decades.

There are other copyright issues I could discuss but I want to stay with the term extension topic and highlight an unusual case where a work still under copyright protection in Canada is already in the public domain in the US.

You also, by entering, guarantee that the picture is not someone else's work, or else has a broad usage license (for example with stock photography put in public domain).

Public domain refers to the body of creative works and knowledge in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary interest such as a copyright.

With a significant lack of clarity on SPL information — out in the public domain or through work — Martin decided to create his very own spreadsheet to map out the various scenarios and processes.

From the Ghanaian home, the misdeed of corrupting, in all its facets, is carried out to the work place; to the school; to the church... to the public domain.

«A knowledge broker... sits in between knowledge producers, [such as] scientists... and those who use knowledge, such as policymakers, the general public, or people working in the health domain.

Physicist David Keith, who has been working on technologies to block sunlight to slow global warming, argues that such efforts need to remain in the public domain

Erasmus MC argued that the E.U. regulation doesn't apply to the H5N1 work because it makes an exception for ″ basic scientific research ″ and for information already in the public domain.

«If all the authors of a paper are NASA employees, then he's probably right that the work would be public domain,» says David Schulz, a lawyer with Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, LLP in Washington, D.C. (who also advises ScienceInsider on legal issues).

In the United States, no new works have entered the public domain in 20 yearIn the United States, no new works have entered the public domain in 20 yearin 20 years.

Chertkov believes that Tolstoy's work belongs in the public domain and should belong to the people of Russia, whereas Sofya believes the works should be kept in the family so that the next generations may be looked after.

* The work of the creator has been in the the public domain since 1962, so there will be no copyright issues * Suggested use: Pupils choose up to 9 words from the list and play the Bingo game as the text is read out.

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They are a purposeful and thoughtful compilation of pre-existing materials in the public domain, state department of education websites, and original work.

Although the works of Tolstoy are public domain, you wouldn't just put a sticker over the publisher's name in the new Penguin edition and try to resell it as your own work, would you?

In most countries works become public domain 50 or 70 years after the last author's death.

If this continues, this will mean that most works created since the 1930s will never end up in the public domain.

Many writers are already fearful enough of baring their souls and skills in the public domain without being chastised for the quality of their work as they begin their writing journey.

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.

If they had started out by emphasizing the public domain it probably would have worked out a lot better for them in the press as the good will they would have built up would have gone a long way.

And while all of the ebooks we feature and the cover art we draw from are already believed to be in the public domain in the US, Standard Ebooks releases all of the work we put in to each ebook into the public domain too.

Verification of your publishing rights: You have to confirm that you own the copyright in what you're publishing, or otherwise indicate you're uploading a public domain work.

Not only does Open Library have over one million public domain books available as digitized Adobe downloads, but they also now work with libraries and publishers for a book borrowing program in BookReader, PDF, and ePub formats.

The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the public domain, and Standard Ebook dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing whole ebooks files themselves into the public domain.

If you live outside the United States, please check the copyright laws concerning public domain works in your home country before downloading and distributing the ebook texts.

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.

Many Golden - and Silver - Age comics are now in the public domain, and The Digital Comic Museum and Comic Book Plus both do great work collecting and publishing these online for you to download completely free.

If you're including in your e-book any public domain works, ensure that these works are in fact in the public domain.

Go to the original public domain source, as any adaptation of a public domain work may have a new copyright in it and may still be protected by copyright.

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.

Despite its partnership with Google Books almost two years ago, giving On Demand access to two million of Google's public domain titles, there are currently only about 75 EBMs at work in locations around the country, with another 75 or so expected to be in use by the end of the year.

Some of the literary works offered on the Service have been identified as being in the public domain by certain content providers.

If you do not reside in the relevant jurisdiction for which the public domain designation has been made, it is your responsibility to check the laws of your country of residence prior to downloading or accessing such literary works.

In the US, all works published before 1923 have entered the public domain, along with works from later years whose registration was not renewed.

For example, one of the special deals touts the classic Zane Grey western — «Riders of the Purple Sage» — for just $ 2.99, though the work is now in the public domain, and you can already find a free edition elsewhere in the Kindle store.

«Apart from that, adding any license to a work that has been in the public domain (Gutenberg died in 1468) is questionable in terms of copyright law.

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.