Editor’s Note; The Amazon free ebook story today inspired me to go dig up this post Mike wrote back in June. This is the real problem, not people selling pd ebooks. I got this tweet: Just finished reading THE LODGER by Marie Belloc Lowndes, possibly the first serial killer novel (published in 1914) #fridayreadsFri Jun [...]
Entries Tagged as 'domain'
Public Domain Day is coming up again
November 28th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
In most of the world 1 January is the day that copyrights expire and previously monopolized content enters the public domain. The one exception is the USA, becuase every time it looks a copyright might expire Congress is bribed into adding more years.
Creative Commons launch the public domain mark
October 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · press release
From the press release: Today, Creative Commons announces the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public, and allows the works to be easily discovered over the Internet. The Public Domain Mark effectively [...]
Ebook.com domain up for sale
September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
Now this is a story you don’t here everyday. The Australian tech company DNAML have decided to auction off their website domain, www.ebook.com. They picked an excellent time to do it, IMO. From the press release:
ORGCon: James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain (video)
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, Open Rights Group, video
The Open Rights Group held a conference a couple weeks ago in London. I just now learned that they posted 6 videos of the sessions on Vimeo. If you follow digital content, the ACTA, and related issues then this is a group worth watching. [ORGCon] James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain from Open Rights [...]
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B&N promotion: free public domain ebooks
July 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · bn
Barnes & Noble are running several promotions for the upcoming 4th of July holiday. I wanted to bring your attention to this one because I find it offensive. From now until Monday night, B&N are generously giving away ebooks that don’t belong to anyone. These ebooks are public domain in the US, which means that [...]
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