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Cory Doctorow Understands Copyright
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Cory Doctorow Understands Copyright
Author Cory Doctorow has made a number of contributions to the Project Gutenberg collection (see: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3826). He was an early proponent of making his books freely available for redistribution, under a permissive license.
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Welcome to a New Year of the Public Domain!
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Welcome to a New Year of the Public Domain!
Project Gutenberg is pleased that many books newly entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2019. Your humble editor remembers when this was annual occurrence for Project Gutenberg, until 1998. It’s great to again be able to celebrate the annual growth of the public domain.
These are efforts to get transcriptions of (mostly) hand-written correspondence and other documents. When Project Gutenberg digitizes items, they are typically printed and therefore we can utilize scanners and optical character recognition (OCR) software to help with transcription.
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Newsletter hiatus
Your newsletter editor missed the “first Wednesday” for several months in a row, so finally this newsletter is going to you on the SECOND Wednesday of October. There has not been very much news to share, over the summer, and I hope that I will hear of new, interesting news items for future newsletters.
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Bodo (or Mech), is the language spoken primarily by the Bodo people of North East India, Nepal and Bengal. These two new Project Gutenberg eBooks have a mixture of Bodo and English, and offer insights into Kachári people from publications in the late 19th century.
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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for March-June 2017
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Michael Hart’s 70th Birthday
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Michael Hart’s 70th Birthday
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This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for January-February 2017
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The TPP
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The TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership appears to have fallen apart in recent months. As mentioned in prior newsletters, the TPP was going to be bad news for the public domain, in several of the potential signatory countries. It is Project Gutenberg’s desire that the public domain will continue to be robust, broad, and accessible across the world.