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My Dad and JFK: Assassination Conspiracy Theorists Keep My Late Father in Their Sights

Peter Mandel | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics
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Peter Mandel

When will Americans, we of middle age, especially, move on? In the absence of new witnesses or of other fresh and vital information, might it make sense to stop our chattering and to open files on the other parts of our lives?

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Legal Issues in Self-Publishing: What Authors Need to Know

Bernard Starr | Posted 02.23.2013 | Books
Read More: Public Domain, Copyright Infringement, Authors, First Amendment, Copyright, Books, Self-Publishing, Publishers, Fair Use, Self-Publishing Legal Issues, Self-Publishing Advice, Self-Publishing-Tips, Self-Publishing Books, Books News
Bernard Starr

Self-publishing continues its exponential growth. More and more authors are choosing this route for presenting their work to the public. But there is one domain that self-published authors rarely think about: legal issues.

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Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Public Domain Panic II

Dan Persons | Posted 08.19.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Francis Ford Coppola, Public Domain, Dementia 13, The Tortured, Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, The FP, Haxan, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The director is Satan! (So what else is new?) A family member is nuts! (Happens in the best of 'em.) Captain Kirk's an a-hole! (Yeah, well, George Takei knew this way ahead of you.)

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New Perspectives on Old Perspectives: How an Art Project Helped the NYPL Put Its 3D Stereograph Collection in Your Hands

The New York Public Library | Posted 03.27.2012 | New York
Read More: Public Domain, New York Public Library, 3d, Animated Gif, Nypl, Animation, Photography, New York Public Library Stereographs, Stereographs, New York News
The New York Public Library

What is a photograph if not an invitation to step, however hesitantly, however briefly, into another time?

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SCOTUS Adds More Fuel to the Copyright Debate With Golan V. Holder

Christina Gagnier | Posted 03.19.2012 | Technology
Read More: Public Domain, Supreme Court, Law, Congress, Copyright, Pipa, Copyright Law, Protect IP, Sopa, Golan v. Holder, Technology News
Christina Gagnier

The case marked a continuance of the debate over the Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution that was broached in the 2003 Supreme Court decision in the Eldred v. Ashcroft case.

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America Vs The Public Domain

Jennifer Jenkins | Posted 03.10.2012 | Books
Read More: Public Domain, Free Books, Public Domain Day, Narnia, Copyright, American Public Domain, Public Domain Law, Parody, Copyright Law, Lolita, Books News
Jennifer Jenkins

Copyright law gives authors and publishers exclusive rights for a "limited time," to encourage them to create and distribute works. So what is entering the public domain in the U.S. this year? Not a single published work. Why should you care?

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PHOTOS: Curate Your Own Art Exhibition

Posted 12.05.2011 | Arts
Read More: Monet, Public Domain, Caravaggio, Rodin, Pissarro, Copyright, Gerome, Online Art, Degas, Baltimore Art Museum, Art Museum, Bronzino, Online Download Museum, Manet, Baltimore Museum, Arts News

In an age where we can use the internet to become DJ's, composers, directors and human encyclopedias, it makes sense we should get a chance to try out...

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Hold the Line: Stop Copyright Rendition!

Lewis Hyde | Posted 12.04.2011 | Home
Read More: Public Domain, Copyright, Golan, Uruguay Round, Supreme Court, Section 514, First Amendment, Copyright Rendition, Fair Use, Home News
Lewis Hyde

In 1948, Twentieth-Century Fox released the Cold War's first anticommunist film, Iron Curtain, the soundtrack of which featured music by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich. Shostakovich himself never saw the film.

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The Genius of Free Governments

Lewis Hyde | Posted 12.03.2011 | Home
Read More: Section 514, Supreme Court, Public Domain, Golan, Copyright, John Locke, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Fielding, Uruguay Round, Home News
Lewis Hyde

This week the Supreme Court will hear a case concerning what ought to be called "copyright rendition." The plaintiffs are challenging a 1994 law that, for the first time in U.S. history, removed hundreds of thousands of works from the public domain.

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Has the Business Card Finally Had Its Day?

Andy Miah | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Business Cards, Web 2.0, Digital Technology, Kindle, Ereader, Ethics, Public Domain, Linkedin, Digital Age, Flickr, Technology News
Andy Miah

How should we regard the business card in a digital age? For a few years now, I have been photographing business cards. but today, I decided that they should go into the public domain.

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Best Places To Get Free eBooks

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Since over a year ago free eBooks have been a hot topic in the publishing market. Last week, however, The Washington Post reported that Amazon has be...

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Ask GYST: Public Domain Images Get a Mark

Karen Atkinson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Artist at Work, Public Domain, Art, Artwork, Artist Rights, Professional Practices, Copyright, Artist, Business of Art, Creative Commons, Arts News
Karen Atkinson

Even with creative commons searches for images, it is not always clear if those images are copyrighted. With this new mark, we will no longer be guessing.

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To Martin Scorsese, the Criterion Collection, and Anyone Else Who'll Listen: More Public Domain Classics Worth Saving

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Public Domain, Carole Lombard, William Powell, Frank Capra, Fredric March, The Thin Man, Best Movies on DVD, The Front Page, Charles Boyer, Best Movies by Farr, Leo McCarey, Barbara Stanwyck, David Lean, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Powell, Michael Curtiz, Irene Dunne, Gary Cooper, Ronald Neame, Entertainment News
John Farr

It's not enough to revere the best of our film heritage -- we must work to protect and preserve it. With that in mind, I've compiled a short list of public domain titles that I'd like to see brought back to their original glory.

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Google Books: Why Is The Settlement Stalled Six Years After Publishers Reach Agreement?

CNET | Tom Krazit | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Public Domain, Google, Orphan Books, Book Publishing, Copyright, Digital Books, Out of Print, Ebooks, Google Books, Books News

At this point, Google and the Authors Guild must feel like they are in a James Joyce novel. The Google Books case drags on with no hint of when the s...

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Google To Scan 400,000 Austrian Library Books

AFP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Public Domain, Google, Book Publishing, Austria, Copyright, Libraries, Google Books, Books News

VIENNA -- Austria's national library said Tuesday it has struck a 30-million-euro deal with US Internet giant Google to digitise 400,000 copyright-fre...

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The Brooklyn Museum's Copyright Project

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Cultural Institutions, Public Domain, The Brooklyn Museum, Art, Flickr, Remix, Copyright, Flickr Commons, Contemporary Art, Art Museums, Wikimedia, Fair Use, New York News
Jonathan Melber

The Brooklyn Museum understands that the public better served, when it allows its collection to be reproduced, remixed and disseminated in as many (non-commercial) ways as possible.

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Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Limited Copyright, Newspapers, Free Content, Copyright, Content, Artistic Collaboration, Perpetual Copyright, Copyright Extension, Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Intellectual Property, Music, Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, Cross-Subsidies, Publishing Industry, Free Economy, Digital Economy, Digital, Future of the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, Public Domain, Paid Content, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Microsoft, Books, Business Models for Digital Content, Thomas Jefferson, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Mark Helprin, Linux, Moore's Law, Espresso Book Machine, Art, Piracy, " "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, Advertising, Digital Age, Music Industry, Freemium, " Free, Media News
Anis Shivani

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

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