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 ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
For a few years, Google Book Search has provided PDF downloads of public domain books. The books came with a page listing some guidelines that Google asked people to follow and the same guidelines are listed in their Google Book Search help center. The old guidelines were as follows:
The new ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
From 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 ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
My little experiment for reprinting public domain books has been running for a little over a month. About 75 books have been setup and printed so far. Today I have added support for public domain books from Google Book Search and moved the service to its own domain. It will ...
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