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- Public Domain
- The jurisdiction of the general public. It refers to intellectual property that has either been voluntarily placed in the public domain by its author or that has passed its...
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- Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets
- Different plans for different worlds?What's needed here is for Google to have different business plans/models for different worlds. Clearly a first world business plan like what they have now is not sutiable for the third world. A third world business plan of free as in beer books would not be...
- Tags: Google Inc., Third World, public domain, on-demand
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Before Google Books, we took on-demand publishing to the streets
- Google and On Demand have a deal to enable on-demand publishing from the public domain books Google's scanned. But way back when, the Internet Archive was scanning and printing on the road - and distributing books for free. by Richard Koman
- Tags: Google Inc., Public Domain, On-demand, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Photos: Books in a minute (or three)
- On Demand Books' Espresso Book Machine is an industrial strength digital book printer that now has access to public domain books scanned by Google. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Public Domain, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-09-16
- Open Book Alliances opens up assault on Google's book settlement
- NOTHING is ever freeAnd Google is going one step further, trying to monetize works that have been in public domain for years, this is truly a despicable business move.There are too many ulterior motives here,the books should accessible to allLet examine these "gotchas" * Google is the...
- Tags: Project Gutenberg, Despicable, alliance, Google Inc., public domain, Open Book Alliance
- Discussion threads 2009-08-27
- Public Domain Riches 1.0 (Windows)
- You may have heard of works that re in the public domain being used as new products by entrepreneurs today. This is a great way to start a business, or to improve the overall bottom line of an existing business. Work that is in the public domain includes any work...
- Tags: Public Domain, Microsoft Windows, Research Signpost
- Software downloads 2009-08-12
- Sony, Google announce 1 million free books
- Sony, together with Google, on Wednesday announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free public domain books in its eBook Store, including classic novels, biographies, historical texts, romance novels and more. The titles, which Google has digitized as part of...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Public Domain, E-books, Service Management, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Wikipedia push for Ogg Theora
- Wikipedia push for Ogg TheoraMoeller I didn't want to bring this up in the article, but Mr. Moeller has been charged with supporting pedophilia. I urge those interested to read the entire blog post and the comments below, which include at least one call to ban Wikipedia from all schools...
- Tags: Wiki, Ogg Theora, Wikipedia, Moeller
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- The complexity of copyright
- The complexity of copyrightOkay.. so what would be the alternative then?"In my opinion, this experiment (and it was an experiment -- "copyright" is a relatively new concept, historically speaking) has failed and needs to end."So in other words, we should put all works into the public domain then? If...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Microsoft Windows, public domain, U.S. Copyright, Web site
- Discussion threads 2009-05-07
- Free Google content still not enough for E-readers
- It's a day old, but it's still not news for Ed Tech that Google released 600,000 free titles via Sony's e-reader store. I raised my eyebrows at first, thinking that this might give me a good reason to finally pick up an ebook reader. Long-time readers will know...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Public Domain, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-20
- Sony licenses public domain books from Google
- Sony licenses public domain books from GoogleThis is about marketing.Amazon had the most books. Now the number two guy can claim to have more books.The fact that very few people are going to want to read any of those old books is beside the point. It is nice to have...
- Tags: public domain book, public domain, Sony Corp., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-20
- Photo Mania 1.0 (Mobile)
- Photo Mania supports zoom/pan with pinch and drag gesture. Double tap is used to reset zoom/pan level, 100 sets of pictures mostly take from public domain resources, each set contains at least two modified images so memorizing the locations of differences of previously seen images is not as helpful, Allows...
- Tags: Public Domain, Mobile, Photograph, Apple iTunes, Couxy Studio, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-03-20
- Sony adds over half a million books to Reader devices through Google
- While I have the new Amazon Kindle 2, see my review, I also still own the Sony Reader PRS-505. I just received an email from the Sony eBook Store that informs me that over half a million free public domain books from Google will be supported by the Sony Reader...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Public Domain, Sony Reader, Public Domain Book, E-books, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Celledoor Bible 0.7.5 (Windows)
- The Celledoor Bible is a Catholic Miscellany. It includes Sacred Scripture in the form of the CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version. Scripture is annotated with Haydock commentary, Catechism reference numbers, and the Latin Vulgate. There are entire books from the public domain also included in the library such as: Radio...
- Tags: Public Domain, Microsoft Windows, CPDV-EBE Project, Celledoor Bible, Scripture
- Software downloads 2009-03-04
- Creative Commons 0: Now with zero restrictions
- There's free and then there's Free. The Creative Commons folks have just unleashed a new license that's about as free as it gets: Creative Commons 0 1.0. Essentially CC0 allows the user to put the work into the public domain: The person who associated a work...
- Tags: Creative Commons, Public Domain, Work, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- Buddhism in Tibet 1.0 (Mobile)
- This mid-19th Century work is one of the few public domain descriptions of Tibetan Buddhism we have found. Desipte the sketchy knowledge of Buddhism in Europe at the time, this has a surprising level of detail about the subject, due to the pioneering field work of the authors' brothers. Some...
- Tags: Public Domain, Mobile, Apple iTunes, IndiaNIC Infotech, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-02-17
- Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain
- Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domainIt's nice to see that some takeour environment serious enough to go so far as to open up patents so any and ALL can benefit from them.
- Tags: patent, green technology, public domain, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-12
- Open source patents: Four companies offer green tech to public domain
- So it turns out that the Eco-Patent Commons, which I wrote about back in January, isn't just another empty-handed cooperative industry effort. Three new companies, Bosch, DuPont and Xerox, have joined the effort and another, Sony, has contributed an additional patent to the community. ...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Xerox Corp., Public Domain, Patent, Green Technology, Open Source, DuPont Co., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Beatles music saved from public domain!
- Beatles music saved from public domain!To us Texas bumkins ....To us backwards Texas bumkins this reads like:"California saves beaches from public access!"It is all about GREED!Next someone will figure out how to tax ourdecendents for out death.It's about money.If there is a nickel to be made out of something, the...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Beatles, Mickey Mouse, public domain
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Beatles music saved from public domain!
- Well, thank God the money will keep flowing in to Paul McCartney. The Times reports that the EU will extend copyright another 45 years in what many people call the "Beatles extension." That's because the first Beatles recordings would have exited copyright in 2012. Actually the first rocker to...
- Tags: Protection, Public Domain, Music, Storyline, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- PoolwarePack 0.62 (Windows)
- PoolwarePack is a collection of 15 no-install, light-weight, open-source programs that are released to the public domain. This means you can use this code and programs for whatever you want. As far as the contents go, it contains SciONE_Calculator, SciONE_UnitConverter, SciONE_PeriodicTable, compINFO, desktopShield, tripShield, freezeShield, LT_Parallel, QuickAlarm, xphysDrop, xploreMassEnergy, xploreTimeDilation,...
- Tags: Public Domain, PoolwarePack, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
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