Sunday, February 1st, 2009
I 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 ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
In 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.
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
I 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.
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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 ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
For 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 ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
With the new Wordpress 2.7 upgrade, something has gone haywire with the contact form plugin for the site. As of now, it has been disabled until I figure out a way to get it to work. You can email instead meanwhile to blog /at/ shaftek [dot] org.
UPDATE: it has been ...
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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, October 20th, 2008
One of the POD companies we experiment with, is changing their prices effective October 28th, 2008. Some sizes will get cheaper, some more expensive. Once the pricing goes into effect, I will post more details as to how it will affect this service. We are hoping to take advantage of ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I am happy to announce that the infamous illustration problem in PublicDomainReprints.org has been fixed. Since the inception, our file conversion had issued with certain Internet Archive titles that had illustrations. That has been fixed as follows:
1. If a book has less than 6 illustrations, it will process in pure ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I did some minor interface updates:
1. A new section was added to the site listing titles that are pending in queue to be processed.
2. Pages for titles already processed were enhanced with cover images and metadata from the original archives, as well as enhanced listing of reprints and links to ...
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