Article: De-mystifying a complex mess.(PUBLIC DOMAIN)(Interview)

Article: Berne treaty won't stymie editors; refusing moral ...
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management;  February 1, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Berne treaty won't stymie editors * New York City--Most likely, publishing ... agency that administers the Berne Convention. The 100-year-old Berne treaty covers literary and dramatic works, films, music, records, computer ...

Article: Designing the public domain.
Harvard Law Review;  March 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... increasingly intense love affair with the public domain, (1) and for good reason--the public domain is said to be necessary for a "just ... access to information, what kind of public domain we should have depends largely on why ...

Article: Mapping the digital public domain: threats and ...
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 ...

Article: '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 ... on-demand hard copy of one of its public domain titles. But, hey, you wonder ...

Article: Importance of the Public Domain.
Information Outlook;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...What is the public domain and why is it important in copyright ... understanding of the value of the public domain is important for librarians, especially ... A shorthand definition of a "public domain" work is that the work is the opposite ...

Article: Public but Private: Copyright's New Unpublished Public ...
Texas Law Review;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... been viewed as a good month for the public domain. By upholding the constitutionality ... 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 ...

Article: Preserving the public domain.(copyright corner)
Information Outlook;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... this column has discussed the public domain and the important role it plays ... significant potential to enhance the public domain. In fact, they are aimed at ... the amount of material in the public domain in the face of the changes wrought ...