public domain day -- in Canada
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Public Domain Day in Canada
Public Domain Day in Canada
01/02/2004 07:12 AMYesterday marked the turning of the year, and as a consequence,
millions of works entered the public domain in Canada and other
countries with copyright terms more limited than those in the US.
Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had
died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into
the public domain in Canada...
Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to
die in
1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which
retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. These people include
Polish
poet Julian Tuwim, British mathematician Alan Turing, Dutch
children’s
author Hugo Pilon, Russian author and Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin,
Soviet
dictator Joseph Stalin, metaphyisical author Baird Spalding, Norwegian
novelist and Nobel laureat Knut Hamsun, playwright and Nobel laureate
Eugene O’Neill (1953 was a bad year for Nobel laureates!), Irish
poet and
Yeats’ one-time lover Maud Gonne, Welsh poet and playwright Dylan
Thomas
(bad year for poets!), country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams,
French author Hilaire Belloc, American historian J.G. Randall, Russian
composer Sergei Prokofiev (bad year for Russians!), founder of Saudi
Arabia Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud, Maria Montessori of school fame, and many
more.
Link"The works of people who died in 1953
are now public domain in Canada"
"The works of people who died in 1953
are now public domain in Canada"
01/04/2004 03:27 PMthe public domain
the public domain
06/21/2004 07:06 PMThe beautiful thing about Cory's speech being in the public domain
isn't merely that I could make an HTML version...
Public-Domain C Library
Public-Domain C Library
11/19/2003 02:44 AMFirst checkins, project statement
When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain?
When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain?
10/23/2002 11:18 PMHow can I determine the copyright status of old documents?
Public Domain Acquired
Public Domain Acquired
04/09/2004 03:54 PMBreaking news: "In a move shocking to all, Duke University, of Durham,
North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last
evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars . . ." (
Full story)
Ingenious use of the public domain
Ingenious use of the public domain
01/07/2004 02:49 PMCustomized
Classics takes several classics of literature from the public
domain, and weaves names of your choosing directly into the story to
create custom one-off printings of your books. It's a clever (and
commercial) use of freely available works.
Pointers to Public Domain sites
Pointers to Public Domain sites
04/09/2004 03:54 PM
This Google Answers post about public domain sites brought up a
wealth of good answers, in all sorts of categories. [via kottke]
Barbara Kruger and the Public Domain
Barbara Kruger and the Public Domain
02/05/2005 09:31 PM
Last night Francesca and I
went to see the artist Barbara Kruger
speak at the San Francisco
Art Institute. Kruger is known for, among other things, stark
photo-and-text collages that appropriate the language of consumer
culture to comment on it.
After the talk, Francesca (our resident art expert) gave Kruger a
Creative Commons t-shirt and explained what it is we do.
"Oh, sounds like Lawrence Lessig," Kruger said.
"He's our chairman," Francesca and I said in unison.
"Wow, if you have to have a hero, he's as good as anyone I can
think of," she said. "Please tell him that I use his book to teach my
grad school courses."
Having endured and prevailed in a copyright
litigation (over the image above), Kruger can appreciate the
benefits of free culture.
My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain
My ETCON talk, in the Public Domain
02/12/2004 06:13 PMI have just given a talk at the
O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Confernece called
Eb
ooks: Neither E, Nor Books, which is something of an anomaly for
me in three ways:
- I wrote out this talk, word for word, in advance of the
presentation
- I am releasing that written text as a free, public domain file,
right now, moments before I get off the stage
So here's the text of that talk, dedicated to the Public Domain, for
you to do with what you will.
This isn't to say that copyright is bad, but that there's such a thing
as good copyright and bad copyright, and that sometimes, too much good
copyright is a bad thing. It's like chilis in soup: a little goes a
long way, and too much spoils the broth.
From the Luther Bible to the first phonorecords, from radio to the
pulps, from cable to MP3, the world has shown that its first
preference for new media is its "democratic-ness" -- the ease with
which it can reproduced.
(And please, before we get any farther, forget all that business about
how the Internet's copying model is more disruptive than the
technologies that proceeded it. For Christ's sake, the Vaudeville
performers who sued Marconi for inventing the radio had to go from a
regime where they had *one hundred percent* control over who could get
into the theater and hear them perform to a regime where they had
*zero* percent control over who could build or acquire a radio and
tune into a recording of them performing. For that matter, look at the
difference between a monkish Bible and a Luther Bible -- next to that
phase-change, Napster is peanuts)
LinkUnion for the Public Domain website
Union for the Public Domain website
06/09/2004 08:29 PMUPD
public-domain.org
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Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year
Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year
07/18/2004 12:21 PMOn January 1, 2005, Elvis Presley's "That's All Right" -- a
50-year-old tune currently enjoying the #3 chart spot in Great Britain
-- will enter the public domain.
Anyone will be able to release it without paying royalties to the
owners of the master or the performer's heirs. BMG will start losing a
significant piece of its catalog income in Europe. As "That's All
Right" is being hailed by some as the beginning of rock 'n' roll, the
implications are that every year after 2005, more recordings that
defined the genre will fall into public domain.
Link
(
Thanks, electrincinca)
'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK
Public Domain
'That's All Right' Soon To Enter UK
Public Domain
07/18/2004 05:19 AMHow Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired!
How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired!
04/12/2005 04:23 PMIt appears that, once again, the entertainment industry's efforts to
educa
te everyone on their distorted view of intellectual property law
is causing some problems. According to
Copyfight, a radio host was recently
fired for airing materials he had recorded off C-SPAN. C-SPAN,
of course, makes no claim to the copyright on the audio they broadcast
from Congress as it is, in fact, in the public domain. However, the
radio station didn't seem to care, and assumed that it was a misuse of
the material and promptly fired the radio host. And some wonder why
there are people afraid of the ever-disappearing public domain.
Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries??
Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries??
01/16/2004 11:28 AMIn response to yester
day's criticism of Illinois Governor Blagojevich's plan to spend money
on 12 books per child per year rather than on libraries, Ernest
Miller comes up with a most interesting proposal.
Book Publishing in Every School and Library
"Why not split the difference?
What if Illinois spent at least part of the $26 million for the
book give away program to install book publishing equipment in every
library in Illinois? Then, just like the Internet
Bookmobile, children would be able to walk into a library and walk
out with a book they could keep. Frankly, I think every school and
library should have book publishing equipment. Given enough scale it
is probably cheaper to print out most public domain books and give
them away then deal with the costs of checking them out and
restocking. Heck, you could have an option: check the book out and be
subject to possible late fees, or pay $1 or so and keep the book.
Might work out pretty well."
Now there's a vision! I'm smelling a grant on the horizon
(because I don't see the Governor compromising). Any SLS library want to be my guinea
pig?! :-)
Public domain art contest from Duke
University
Public domain art contest from Duke
University
08/20/2004 12:34 PMXeni Jardin: Duke University Law School's Center for
the Study of Public Domain is running a video contest with some cool
prizes, and a nod to Creative Commons. The contest invites artists "to
create a 2-minute moving image that explains to the public some of the
tensions between art and intellectual property law, and the
intellectual property issues artists face, focusing particularly on
either music or documentary film." Entry deadline is November 1, and
some tasty, gadgety prizes are offered.
Link (
Thanks, Yo Vinny)
BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain
BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain
11/13/2003 07:40 AMBriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the Public Domainhttp://fusion.sims.b
erkeley.edu/briefbank/BriefBank is a free,
community-supported resource that collects and redistributes briefs in
the area of law, technology, and public policy. Briefs are generously
donated by legal scholars and partner organizations. BriefBank is
housed at the
School of
Information Managment and Systems and is administered by the
Samuelson Law, Technology, and
Public Policy Clinic at
Boalt Hall School of Law,
UC Berkeley.
President Bush public domain audio
project
President Bush public domain audio
project
06/18/2004 10:21 PM
Though the graphics on this project probably reveal the author's
personal positions on the President, it is pretty cool that someone
went to the trouble of creating an audio archive
of every speech President George W Bush has made publicly. They're
available for download as mp3, or you can get all 10 Gb of audio on
three DVDs from the site.
It'd be cool if the Library of Congress
site had this level of detail on all presidents, but this will do
for now. They're even throwing a little music
remix contest based on the speeches.
"The Original Tom Swift Series Public
Domain Texts."
"The Original Tom Swift Series Public
Domain Texts."
07/04/2004 03:35 PMIn Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in
Public Domain
In Competitive Move, I.B.M. Puts Code in
Public Domain
08/02/2004 10:12 PMI.B.M. plans to announce that it is contributing more than half a
million lines of its software code, valued at $85 million, to an open
source software group.
Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The
Public Domain In Europe
Horror Of Horrors: Rock Music To Hit The
Public Domain In Europe
07/19/2004 04:43 AMWhile the US locks up copyrighted works for longer than could possibly
be reasonable thanks to our friends at the Walt Disney Company and the
Sonny Bono "Keep Mickey Locked Up" Act, over in Europe they have dared
to go with a horrifying 50 year copyright. Why is it horrifying?
Well, it appears that fifty years ago popular rock and roll began, and
that means
plenty of those songs are about to hit the
public domain. Of course, the music industry folks could never
let that happen, which is why they're lobbying hard for a Sonny Bono
copyright term extension act of their own, because the thought of
Elvis Presley's or the Beatles songs entering the public domain scares
the living daylights out of the industry. They've convinced Reuters
to write up a very one-sided piece that never talks to anyone who
might point out why there's a limit on the length of copyright, and
how stuff in the public domain is important to our culture. Is anyone
over in Europe complaining about how Shakespeare's works are in the
public domain? However, Reuters digs up some random musician to say:
"It's scary." It's scary? This is a musician who is on "a 37-date
sold-out tour." You're on a sold out tour, making plenty of money,
and you're complaining that you won't get your royalties from
something you did fifty years ago? In most lines of business, you get
paid for what you're doing today, not what you did fifty years ago.
Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online
Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online
02/10/2004 02:41 AMGovernment documents supplied by Former Treasury Secretary Paul
O'Neill to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Ron Suskind
for his book, The
Price of Loyalty, are now available online. The site makes use of the Creative Commons public domain mark.
These documents, drawn from a collection of 19,000 files, are called
"The Bush Files" and Suskind is encouraging other administration
officials to contribute to the database, "to encourage more
productive, fact-based public dialogues," as stated on the website.
Collecting copyright horror stories to
restore the public domain
Collecting copyright horror stories to
restore the public domain
05/22/2004 02:38 AMAn important piece of copyright litigation is in the offing: Golan v
Ashcroft challenges Congress's "restoration of copyright" to thousands
of works that were in the public domain as of 1994. The Golan legal
team is collecting your horror stories about being denied access to
works that were snatched from the public domain; they're publishing
the stories as they come in:
To win the lawsuit we need your help: we need examples of how people
have been harmed by this removal of works from the public domain. You
can help us if you have ever wanted to use:
* a foreign sound recording made before February 15, 1972; or
* a foreign work published in or after 1923 that was in the public
domain in the U.S. (due to lack of copyright notice, renewal, or
national eligilibility of the author), including:
* works of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Khachaturian, and
other foreign composers (search for restored works)
* numerous classic British, French, German, and other foreign films
(including several Hitchcock films, Faust, Metropolis, and The Red
Balloon, Kurosawa's Ikiru, The Third Man, and Intermezzo)
* or any other foreign book, photograph, song, or work subject to a
"restored" copyright
* although registration is optional, you can search the U.S. Copyright
Office for restored works
Link
(
Thanks, Jason!)
"copywrong: copyright laws are stifling
art, but the public domain can save us,"
"copywrong: copyright laws are stifling
art, but the public domain can save us,"
12/06/2003 06:08 AMGood article
indyweek.com/durham/2003-12-03/cover.html
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Needed: A Joan Kroc for Open Technology
and Public Domain
Needed: A Joan Kroc for Open Technology
and Public Domain
01/22/2004 02:11 AMMarket failures create the need for organizations like the Salvation
Army. Joan Kroc used her family fortune in powerful ways that
recognized these failures.
MacArthur grants: study intellectual
property, public domain
MacArthur grants: study intellectual
property, public domain
03/13/2003 10:16 AM The MacArthur
Foundation issued two large grants for
scholarly research into current intellectual property (IP) issues
.
One, for $600,000, is to the American Association for the Advancement
of Science ( AAAS ), in support of
research into "examining intellectual property policies and their
potential impact on scientific research and innovation".
"We have been looking for an appropriate balance between the interests
of the public and its need for access to information, and the
interests of those who produce and publish that scientific
information... These grants will allow us to expand our approach so
that we can address the impacts of both copyright and patenting on
access to and use of scientific information."
A second grant, for $250,000, goes to the
National Research Council , at the
science-focused National Academies (
NAS ), to support "its efforts to promote open access to and the
preservation of a public domain in scientific and technical data
internationally." (The NAS has published a recent
report on
technology and education.)
The MacArthur Foundation has a history of, and
program for supporting IP research. In July of 2002 it released
four grants totalling $2.5 million, for research on the
internet and intellectual property . In September of this year,
the Foundation awarded one of its Fellows
Grants , or "genius grants" to
Cornell 's Paul Ginsparg, for his work on arXiv , an open-source scholarly archive for scientific research .
The Rockefeller Foundation
launched a related initiative in November, aimed at developing
new fair use policies to mitigate the digital
divide .
(via
BoingBoing and Philanthropy
News Digest )
Triton Opens Proprietary Intellectual
Property 'Triton Standard' to Public
Domain
Triton Opens Proprietary Intellectual
Property 'Triton Standard' to Public
Domain
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Inevitably the Kobe case got tried in
public with leaks and press releases,
and once it got tried in public, Justice
lost
Inevitably the Kobe case got tried in
public with leaks and press releases,
and once it got tried in public, Justice
lost
09/02/2004 05:43 PMBryant charge dismissed, accuser's lawyer says .. The case didn't even
go to trial .. as he
wants
cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/01/bryant.trial/index.html
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Guidance for public sector web sites
which sell online to the public
Guidance for public sector web sites
which sell online to the public
12/15/2003 03:35 AMPublicTechnology.net Dec 15 2003 3:11AM ET
Quite a concept: Public records should
be made public
Quite a concept: Public records should
be made public
07/01/2004 03:45 PMChicago's public sculpture can't be
photographed by the public
Chicago's public sculpture can't be
photographed by the public
02/07/2005 02:07 AMCory Doctorow:
Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big
public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with
public money. Woe betide any member of the public who tries to
photograph this sculpture, though: it's a
copyrighted
sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing
Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their
tax-dollars bought.
If I were them, I'd ask for my money back. What kind of jerk sculptor
sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then
demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this
guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for
scrap. Then they should fire the politician who signed a purchase
contract that reserved the photographic rights and run him out of town
on the same rail. Between the artist's greed and the procurement
officer's malfeasance, this is about the vilest display of human
venality I've heard of all day.
The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by
the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works,
especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that
artist.
Link
(
via Electrolite)
Public enemy number one – the public.
Public enemy number one – the public.
05/02/2004 12:14 AMFun with Public Officials and Public
Databases
Fun with Public Officials and Public
Databases
07/23/2004 02:58 PMFlorida Secretary of State Glenda Hood is lying, and I can prove it.
Grok Description matches for public domain day -- in Canada
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public domain day -- in Canada
