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You can do anything you want with material that's in the public domain - sell it, rewrite it, use it for loo paper. Anything.
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Crich70,
Sorry with my english, i understand your reply but that not the real subject. DP isn't the God law (my point of view). Is a company can sell content done for free in USA. Is a company can be in competition in the business with an other one which give moneys to his workers. Don't you have commerce laws, which give some rules. Is free works done by volunteers, can be reselled by a company without infringements of commerce laws. Even if a wesite say do what you want with it ! That not a copyright violation problem but.... So you want to make money, you want to be a publisher based on dp....Work baby and you should work hard, very hard to earn some dollars. Last edited by H-P; 03-08-2013 at 09:11 AM. |
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You can say that copyright isn't God, but copyright is in fact the law. If a work is in the public domain, you cannot gain a copyright on it, it never becomes your property.
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Copyright is one law. I never spoke about gain a copyright on materiel ! read again my post, even i'm not skakespeare update : found the US expression it's all about "Unfair competition". Last edited by H-P; 03-08-2013 at 10:14 AM. |
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I recently got a package of 5 miniposters of the Twilight movies for free at my local Wal-Mart. The posters were a free handout, but that doesn't mean I could scan them into a computer and print up copies to sell. Even though they were free giveaways if I did that I'd be guilty of copyright infringement. The company that printed up the posters still retains copyright for them. The fact that they were given away free doesn't change that, and the same applies to books that are given away free. If you write a book and give it away free that doesn't mean I can buy a copy, duplicate the file and resell it. I'd be breaking the law since the book is copyrighted to you.
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If you're going to sell something that people can get for free, you're going to need to provide some added value. The public domain is not unfair competition. Should I sell air and then object when people breathe air for free?
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Not all free content is public domain. I have a few photographs on Wikimedia Commons that can be freely reused but whoever does that is supposed to say that the photographs came from me (or at least Wikimedia). I don't care that much whether I get attribution because I uploaded the photos more for my use on Wikipedia and frankly it's not my best work either.
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