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British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Domain
Posted: September 24th, 2015, 1:34 am
by carolb
If you haven't already heard, this might be of interest to all you lovely cover art volunteers
http://www.openculture.com/2013/12/british-library-puts-1000000-images-into-public-domain.html
Carol
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: October 31st, 2015, 12:34 am
by carteki
Thanks Carol
Can one of the Wiki Admin's update the Cover Art wiki with this resource?
http://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/CD_Covers
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: October 31st, 2015, 1:17 am
by annise
They would still require research - it doesn't mean they are PD in the USA.
I'd prefer the resources listed in the wiki were PD for LV.
Anne
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: October 31st, 2015, 6:47 am
by MaryAnnSpiegel
The BL says they are from books published in the 17, 18 and 19th centuries. That puts all of them before 1900.
I guess I am missing how they could [not] be PD in the US . . .
MaryAnn
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: March 8th, 2016, 4:52 pm
by RossKlatte
The Film Noir movies are dated 1939, 1950, 1954, and so forth.
Why are they Public Domain?
RossKlatte
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: March 8th, 2016, 5:21 pm
by Availle
Because the BRITISH library obviously adheres to European copyright, which extends to authors/translators death + 70 years; or sometimes depending on the publication, publication date + 70 years. I think films are protected for 50 years after their first public screening only, but I am not sure.
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: March 9th, 2016, 1:40 am
by carolb
It works both ways Ann,
We Europeans have to check that whatever is in the wiki and PD for LV is also PD for us.
A little research never did anyone any harm.
Of course, there are still hundreds of thousands of images in the British Library Archives that are PD for LV
Carol
Re: British Library Puts 1,000,000 Images Into The Public Do
Posted: March 12th, 2016, 11:44 am
by carteki
MaryAnnSpiegel wrote:The BL says they are from books published in the 17, 18 and 19th centuries. That puts all of them before 1900.
I guess I am missing how they could [not] be PD in the US . . .
MaryAnn
If any copywrite owner puts a book/song/... in the public domain, then it really shouldn't matter where the jurisdiction is. The argument about jurisdiction is only where law DEEMS the work to be in the public domain. There is stuff that is created right now that is in the public domain.