Other Public Domain Reprints Services
Sunday, February 15th, 2009We added a list of other reprint publishers and services right here for those books that cannot be located via our service.
Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
We added a list of other reprint publishers and services right here for those books that cannot be located via our service.
Experimental Support for OpenCRS
Monday, February 9th, 2009I just added experimental support for Congressional Research Service reports hosted by OpenCRS.com / CDT. Most of these are very small (under 40 pages) and our service will support them as a matter of convenience for those who want a bound copy. Due to the small number of pages, majority ...
Updated IPR Policy for PublicDomainReprints.org
Sunday, February 1st, 2009I updated the IPR policy for PublicDomainReprints.org with a small paragraph explaining why scans of public domain works are not under copyrighted and a reference to the approriate court case as follows: As per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. (36 F. Supp. 2d 191 - SDNY 1999), exact photographic reproductions ...
Why Scans of Public Domain Books Cannot Be Copyrighted
Sunday, February 1st, 2009(This is a followup to one of the points in my earlier post about Google Books changes) Paul Durrant in a comment on the TeleRead blog cited a very interesting factoid: In the US, at least, you can’t claim copyright on an out-of-copyright work just through simple mechanical reproduction of the work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp. According ...
PublicDomainReprints.org Financials for 2007-2008
Friday, January 30th, 2009In keeping with the non-commercial nature of our service, we are informing the public that the financial figures for 2007-2008 years for PublicDomainReprints.org have been reviewed and the remaining profit of $33.13 has been donated to the Internet Archive.
Database Upgrade for PublicDomainReprints.org
Friday, December 19th, 2008I plan on upgrading the database for PublicDomainReprints.org over the next week to support new features coming early next year. Expect some downtime. All requests will not be processed until the upgrade has been completed. Stay tuned.
Followup on Internet Archive Scan on Demand
Friday, December 12th, 2008[This is a followup on an earlier post about the new and free Scan on Demand service from the Internet Archive] The service is great and I really have no complaints. However, one thing that I ran into is that copyrights are not being checked properly. For example, this book was ...
Processing Issues with PublicDomainReprints.org Resolved
Friday, December 12th, 2008For the past few weeks there were persistent processing issues with certain titles requested. We have resolved those issues and all pending requests have been done. The issue was due to one of the archives blocking our requests because we happened to have been sharing an IP address of some ...
Internet Archive Launches Scan on Demand for Public Domain Books
Thursday, October 30th, 2008From the announcement on the Open Library homepage: Introducing Scan-On-Demand! In partnership with the Internet Archive and OpenLibrary.org, the Boston Public Library is excited to announce a new program to allow users and patrons to "Scan-on-Demand". It's easy and free! Books are delivered to you, electronically, in 5-7 days Quick inspection of this ...
Common Cloud Computing Services
Monday, October 27th, 2008Some notes from my research on cloud computing - some common cloud services, what they do and common providers: Storage - provides ability to store and serve files, usually unlimited and billed per GB of storage/bandwidth, no minimums. May or may not come with CDN functionality. Some examples: Amazon S3 - the ...
