Mapping the digital public domain: threats and opportunities. (Conference...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...INTRODUCTION Whether the public domain is a virtual wasteland of undeserving...propertizing value residing in the public domain will produce more social benefit...itself as the main threat to the public domain. (3) At the risk of seeming a...

'Copyfraud' and public domain works.(THE SIDEBAR)

Searcher;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......dates? Can someone legitimately move public domain text into copyright? What about when...nonpublic domain titles mixed in with public domain items, but the archive seems to put...print-on-demand hard copy of one of its public domain titles. But, hey, you wonder--the university...

Public but Private: Copyright's New Unpublished Public Domain

Texas Law Review;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......been viewed as a good month for the public domain. By upholding the constitutionality...20-year delay in the entry into the public domain of everything published after 1922...such works will not begin to enter the public domain until 2018. But January 2003 was also...

Reimagining the public domain. (Conference on the Public Domain)

Law and Contemporary Problems;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Law School's Conference on the Public Domain, James Boyle kindly credits...essay of mine, Recognizing the Public Domain, (1) with having contributed...of individual rights in the public domain.... Each [intellectual property...

Alvin's Personal 'Public Domain'

The Washington Post;  August 16, 2000 ;     541 words ...A song said to be in the "public domain" means the ownership rights...royalties. Many songs in the public domain are so old and familiar that...comes around: His new record, "Public Domain: Songs From the Wild Land...

Lost Copyrights Fuel Spate of Series DVDs; No Royalties as Marketers Mine...

TelevisionWeek;  March 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Instead, these shows have fallen into the public domain and are now available as a profit center...The Andy Griffith Show'' and other public domain material. Steve Scebelo, a licensing...said the packages will include both public domain and, he hopes, some licensed material...

In dispute over restoration of copyrights for foreign authors previously...

International Law Update;  May 1, 2005 ;     696 words ......foreign works which are not in the public domain in their own countries but which had entered the U.S. public domain due to non- compliance with U.S...authorship that ... (B) is not in the public domain in its source country through expiration...

ASEAN workshop on public domain information.(More to the Point)

Manila Bulletin;  December 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ......divide, UNESCO sees the creative use of public domain information as a principal mechanism. Public domain information refers to publicly accessible...workshop on content development on public domain information will be held at the Mandarin...

Ideas, artifacts, and facilities: information as a common-pool...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......traditional knowledge, and the intellectual public domain. The Duke Law School Conference on the Public Domain brought together, for the first time...shared resources is not unique to the public domain of knowledge. Given the opening of...

COLUMN: Copyright controversies within the public domain

University Wire;  November 8, 2002 ;     605 words ......s a concept in this country called public domain. After a set period of time, copyright...running into a pack of lawyers. However, public domain is quickly becoming as fictional as...detective's adventures have fallen into public domain, as have the works of Shakespeare and...

Verified public domain material.(THE SIDEBAR)(Brief article)

Searcher;  January 1, 2008 ;     291 words ......Project Gutenberg's eBooks are in the public domain in the United States. For the rest...separate the copyrighted works from the public domain titles in its collection. Alex Catalogue...collection of about 14,000 classic public domain documents from American and English...

Mickey Mouse's first cartoon could soon enter public domain

The Journal Record;  February 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ......animated cartoon will soon enter the public domain unless Congress extends copyright terms...Disney cartoon shorts could enter the public domain by 2011. A bill extending copyrights...T.S. Eliot are all set to enter the public domain unless Congress acts. Current law says...

Nine-tenths of the law: the English copyright debates and the rhetoric of...

Law and Contemporary Problems;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......came into being. The story implies that the public domain, the literary commons, precedes copyright...emerged. II CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE BIRTH OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN Copyright and the public domain were born together. They were formed in...

Dunne and dusted in the name of `public domain'

Sunday Star-Times;  April 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......it would vest the coastline in the public domain--whatever that meant--United leader...the people of New Zealand', or `the public domain', or whatever, we, the people--all...protesting the omission of those two words, "public domain". He disagrees with the Waitangi Tribunal...

Public domain and shareware: a view from the United Kingdom.

Computers in Libraries;  March 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ......been written in this journal about public domain software and shareware-what it is and...in Libraries.1 The vast majority of public domain software and shareware in circulation...United Kingdom Sources Sources of public domain software and shareware in the United...