[cc-community] Finding PD content on Gutenberg
Jonathan Gray
jonathan.gray at okfn.org
Thu Mar 27 09:49:57 EDT 2008
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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