[cc-community] Finding PD content on Gutenberg
Jonathan Gray
jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Wed Apr 2 07:24:06 EDT 2008
Chris,
Yes - this has been on the cards for a while. We've been thinking about
helping to build a set of 'public domain calculators' which would
determine whether or not a give work was in the public domain in a given
jurisdiction:
http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainCalculators
http://www.publicdomainworks.net/
Sorry the link doesn't seem to work, try:
http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/trunk/
Warm regards,
Jonathan
Chris Watkins wrote:
> Thanks Jonathon - good work.
>
> Did you look at ways to distinguish which documents are actually PD,
> as opposed to some other form of permission?
>
> btw, https://project.knowledgeforge.net/svn/shakespeare/trunk doesn't work
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Jonathan Gray
> <jonathan.gray at okfn.org <mailto:jonathan.gray at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
> Terry Hancock wrote:
> > So, Gutenberg contains George MacDonald's "Princess and
> Curdie", which
> > is PD. But the header data at the top of the file that says
> "This is a
> > Project Gutenberg e-text... [blah blah blah]" is copyright Project
> > Gutenberg and therefore NOT PD (and therefore so is the entire
> file if
> > left as-is). In order to get the PD work, you have to strip
> out all of
> > the Project Gutenberg stuff at the beginning.
>
> We noticed this when we were getting the text files for our Open
> Shakespeare project. We wrote some code to strip out the header files:
>
> https://project.knowledgeforge.net/svn/shakespeare/trunk
> http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/trunk/shakespeare/gutenberg.py
>
> I'm going to have a go at tinkering with this to generate PD
> versions of
> several other texts for some projects I'm working on.
>
> There's also a note on the Gutenberg license at:
>
> http://opendefinition.org/licenses
>
>
> Jonathan
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