Update to Domain Name Change

• What does it mean to be in the public domain? Thoughts about the AP licensing scheme.

  The AP has begin trying to license content through a payment scheme. Some of the content -- as recently demonstrated by James Grimmelmann "purchasing" a Thomas Jefferson quote -- is in the public domain. Does the AP have the right to sell/license this public-domain content? What does it mean to be in the public domain?

  
  
• Google Books adds open-standard downloads

  For anyone using any kind of electronic reader -- including a regular computer -- this addition to Google Books may well prove quite useful: EPUB as a download format.

  
  
• Copyright and the public domain

  Randy Picker has a fascinating post on the Faculty Blog of the University of Chicago's law school of the copyright status of scans (by Google, for example) of public domain works. Does the effort of digitizing the work qualify as enough original effort to create a new copyright?

  
  
• What modern copyright law means to our culture

  What does it mean to our culture that we have imposed the most draconian restrictions on the reuse of intellectual creations than at any other time?

  
  
• Making a personal site more dynamic

  As part of a recent attempt to update my personal information online, I decided to update my personal site to better reflect my current activities and background. As part of my content update, I ideally wanted my site to be more dynamic, so that I did not need to touch it very often, yet to still have it be more up-to-date and fresh. My idea was to rely on updates I would make to other sites anyway, and to leverage those updates to drive my personal site too.

  
  

Post title: Update to Domain Name Change

Authored by: krisnelson

Date posted: Jun 19, 2007

Categorized as: blog

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