Pointers to Public Domain sites

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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 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 15 2003 3:11AM ET

New Web domain to appear: .xxx sites

New Web domain to appear: .xxx sites 06/05/2005 11:48 PM

The World Wide Web will soon see a new naming convention for some sites: . xxx . The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) announced that it is working on technological implementation plans for enabling this suffix for pornography sites. Along with two other new top level domain listings, .jobs and .travel, .xxx is likely to be available this winter.

the public domain

the public domain 06/21/2004 07:06 PM
The beautiful thing about Cory's speech being in the public domain isn't merely that I could make an HTML version...

Ingenious use of the public domain

Ingenious use of the public domain 01/07/2004 02:49 PM

Customized 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.

Public-Domain C Library

Public-Domain C Library 11/19/2003 02:44 AM
First checkins, project statement

public domain day -- in Canada

public domain day -- in Canada 01/07/2004 02:40 PM
Wallace McLean sent the following:

Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada. As of today, millions of pages of archival heritage, in hundreds of archival institutions, have become the common property of all Canadians. You are free to make use of this heritage in any way you want, by publishing, digitizing, compiling, translating, adapting, dramatizing, or treating the material in any other way. It's yours to enjoy and share with whomever, whenever, in whatever way you want. 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. Happy Public Domain Day!

Here in America, we'll celebrate our next public domain day in, um, 15 years.

Public Domain Acquired

Public Domain Acquired 04/09/2004 03:54 PM
Breaking 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)

Public Domain Day in Canada

Public Domain Day in Canada 01/02/2004 07:12 AM
Yesterday 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.

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When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain?

When Does a Work Go Into The Public
Domain? 10/23/2002 11:18 PM
How can I determine the copyright status of old documents?

Union for the Public Domain website

Union for the Public Domain website 06/09/2004 08:29 PM
UPD

public-domain.org
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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 PM
I 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:

1. I wrote out this talk, word for word, in advance of the presentation
2. 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)

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Porn sites to get their own Internet
domain (Reuters)

Porn sites to get their own Internet
domain (Reuters) 06/05/2005 11:46 PM
Reuters - Sex sites will soon be able to sign up for Web addresses in the .xxx Internet domain, but a virtual red light district won't guarantee that people can avoid pornography online, Internet experts said Thursday.

Kids Only Domain Takes Three Years To
Get 21 Sites

Kids Only Domain Takes Three Years To
Get 21 Sites 06/05/2005 11:57 PM
More than three years ago, when US politicians set up the "kids-only" domain of .kids.us, we wondered how many sites would actually bother with it, noting the "chicken and egg" problem the domain faced. We now have an answer. Three years into the experiment, there are a grand total of 21 sites hosted in the special .kids.us domain. Yes: twenty one. A thriving community. It probably doesn't help that to host there you have to pay about $400 a year for registration and "content review" vs. $7 or so to register a .com. Somehow, we're confident that .xxx won't face the same problem.

Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year

Elvis enters public domain in UK next
year 07/18/2004 12:21 PM
On 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)

How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired!

How Dare You Share The Public Domain!
You're Fired! 04/12/2005 04:23 PM
It 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.

BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain

BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the
Public Domain 11/13/2003 07:40 AM
BriefBank – Techlaw Briefs for the Public Domain
http://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.

'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 AM

Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries??

Publishing the Public Domain in Illinois
Libraries?? 01/16/2004 11:28 AM

In 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 PM
Xeni 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)

In 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 PM
I.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.

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 PM

"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 AM
Good article

indyweek.com/durham/2003-12-03/cover.html
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Collecting copyright horror stories to
restore the public domain

Collecting copyright horror stories to
restore the public domain 05/22/2004 02:38 AM
An 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!)

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 AM
While 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.

"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 PM

Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online

Ron Suskind posts government public
domain documents online 02/10/2004 02:41 AM

Government 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.

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 AM
Market 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 07/20/2004 11:30 AM
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Programme pointers

Programme pointers 05/17/2004 12:02 PM
Personal Computer World May 17 2004 3:40PM GMT

Dot Net Pointers from Daniel

Dot Net Pointers from Daniel 03/13/2003 06:14 PM
Source: Archipelago

Laser pointers

Laser pointers 12/29/2004 06:44 PM
I saw this on my local news this evening. Can consumer lasers really bring down planes?

Ajax info and pointers

Ajax info and pointers 06/06/2005 12:10 AM
Tara asks: I'm looking for doofus-level (that's me!) introductions to AJAX functionality and perhaps a tutorial or two. Since this stuff seems so JavaScript heavy, and since for all JavaScript wisdom I look to Dori, I'm hoping she'll chime in...

Powerful Pointers: References in PHP

Powerful Pointers: References in PHP 08/19/2002 08:48 AM

Some AJAX Information Pointers for You
and Me

Some AJAX Information Pointers for You
and Me 06/05/2005 11:21 PM
AJAX AJAX AJAX. Every time I turn around I hear AJAX. This is as bad as 2002 when every time turned around I heard RSS. Except in 2002 I had...

Pointers In C - A Boon Or A Bane?

Pointers In C - A Boon Or A Bane? 11/28/2002 11:07 PM
Stickysauce Nov 28 2002 9:40PM ET

FBI clears terrorists of shining laser
pointers at pilots

FBI clears terrorists of shining laser
pointers at pilots 01/03/2005 02:53 PM
Horseplay still under investigation
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