12-25-2011, 09:08 AM | #1 |
Guru
Posts: 612
Karma: 7511929
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: New York, NY
Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2
|
Public Domain Day
What really good reads are coming into the public domain on Jan 1 in the US? I'm looking forward to downloading all the works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.
http://publicdomainday.org/ |
12-25-2011, 10:58 AM | #2 |
eBook Enthusiast
Posts: 85,544
Karma: 93383043
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: UK
Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6
|
None. Not one thing. What makes you think that any would?
|
Advert | |
|
12-25-2011, 11:13 AM | #3 |
Connoisseur
Posts: 55
Karma: 42
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Silver Spring, MD
Device: Sony PRS-300
|
It was my understanding that US Copyrights were given an extension that kept books that should have entered the public domain from doing so. Anything pre-1923 is public domain but other books wouldn't begin to enter the public domain until 95 years after publication.
See http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm Here's a link on the page you linked to explaining why we don't get any new public domain books in the US http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday Last edited by bitemeok; 12-25-2011 at 11:22 AM. |
12-25-2011, 11:32 AM | #4 |
Guru
Posts: 612
Karma: 7511929
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: New York, NY
Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2
|
What? I thought the copy right lasted 70 years after the author's death in the US. How is it we have to wait until 2019?
|
12-25-2011, 11:47 AM | #5 |
Cynical Old Curmudgeon
Posts: 1,085
Karma: 8495696
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Halifax, Canada
Device: Kobo Mini, Kobo Arc, HTC Desire C
|
Wonder if there's a list for Canada? (author's life + 50 years, and 50 from publication OR 75 from creation, whichever is shorter, for anonymous works)
|
Advert | |
|
12-25-2011, 11:48 AM | #6 |
Guru
Posts: 612
Karma: 7511929
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: New York, NY
Device: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2
|
Actually, the Supreme Court in the US is going to hear a case on whether it was constitutional for Congress to place a public domain work, like by virginia woolf, back under copyright.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/artic...+dispute/25161 |
12-25-2011, 12:28 PM | #7 |
Retired
Posts: 2,552
Karma: 37638420
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Vancouver Island Canada
Device: Kobo Touch, Optimus One (2.3), Nexus 7 (4.2)
|
I might be wrong but I think Virginia Woolf's books are already PD in Canada, look in the MR Library a bunch of her works are there, MR' servers are here in Canada I believe so they can have more free book
|
12-25-2011, 12:57 PM | #8 | |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 7,149
Karma: 39600000
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: near Philadelphia USA
Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)
|
Quote:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/years/1961.htm I expect to see Ernest Hemingway at http://gutenberg.ca/ within months if not weeks. And a bit after that, they are likely to be seen at https://www.mobileread.com/. That is, unless something like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is passed. If I were to download any of them, I would indeed be disrespecting my nation's copyright law. Simon and Schuster, Hemingway's publisher, must still get a fair amount of revenue from those books. If SOPA becomes law, debates seen in these parts could become less than theoretical next year. (Although I find it hard to believe President Obama would sign it in an election year. Maybe they'll wait until 2013.) P.S. For anyone new to these endless debates, legal changes currently being considered in the US Congress wouldn't change the copyright period. But they would potentially block US domain name servers from returning web sites used by Americans to download material copyrighted in the US, even if a foreign web site. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 12-25-2011 at 01:13 PM. |
|
12-26-2011, 02:28 AM | #9 |
Guru
Posts: 711
Karma: 4033862
Join Date: Jun 2011
Device: sony prs-350
|
Oh well regardless of which way it goes, if someone really wants these workson their ereaders, they should be willing to pay for them just like new stuff. Right?? If they dont become public domain would people be willing to pay or not I wonder???
|
12-26-2011, 02:44 AM | #10 | |
Connoisseur
Posts: 96
Karma: 72130
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
Device: Sony PRS-505, Kindle DX 1st Gen, Kindle Fire 1st Gen
|
Quote:
Oh wait... |
|
12-26-2011, 09:09 AM | #11 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 8,478
Karma: 5171130
Join Date: Jan 2006
Device: none
|
|
12-26-2011, 10:09 AM | #12 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 11,344
Karma: 35112572
Join Date: Jan 2008
Device: Pocketbook
|
|
12-27-2011, 03:50 AM | #13 |
Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 11,309
Karma: 43993832
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Monroe Wisconsin
Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)
|
I notice Robert Baden-Powell is at the top of the list to be PD. I hadn't realized the founder of Scouting had only died in 1941.
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Public Domain Recs | covingtoncat73 | Reading Recommendations | 4 | 07-25-2011 09:59 AM |
January 1st is Public Domain Day | mikemc2 | General Discussions | 15 | 01-06-2011 08:34 AM |
Today is Public Domain Day | Nate the great | News | 96 | 01-05-2010 08:15 PM |
Public Domain Authors | pgd1 | News | 12 | 08-04-2009 10:17 AM |
Public Domain Day and no PD books until 2026 | AprilHare | News | 3 | 01-31-2009 04:54 AM |