Sentences with phrase «works out of public domain»

But Vook has been producing video books for Simon & Schuster and the HarperCollins imprint HarperStudio and also making works out of public domain texts.

Not exact matches

Perhaps it would seem overly didactic to spell them out, or too much an intrusion of private judgments into a work directed to the public domain.

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.

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* 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.

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.

Project Gutenberg has an extensive library of free, public domain (or merely out of copyright) works that are easily transferred and read on the reader.

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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.

You fundamentally want to ignore the law of copyright as applied to musical compositions and that simply isn't possible legally, although obviously, if the old «Real Book» contains only songs that are out of copyright (usually pre-1923, but more complicated in the case of songs that were historically governed by state law than for other copyrighted works that were historically governed by federal law), you wouldn't have a problem and many Jazz compositions are in the public domain because they are sufficiently old.

Figuring out whether a work is in public domain can be quite complex as different countries have different rules and there are often a lot of (relatively) complex exceptions.

Specifically in this case I wondered if the owners of a long out of print, but still under copyright, work could potentially release said work to the public domain.

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