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This category is for books that are in the public domain worldwide. Please only add categories for books published before the 19th century and articles directly related to the subject of public domain books to this category. Because the copyright status of books published since the 19th century varies by country, articles about books published ...
The claim that "pre-1930 works are in the public domain" is correct only for published works; unpublished works are under federal copyright for at least the life of the author plus 70 years. [citation needed] Legal traditions differ on whether a work in the public domain can have its copyright restored.
Standard Ebooks produces e-books by following a unified style guide, which specifies everything from typography standards to semantic tagging and internal code structure, with the goal of creating a consistent corpus, aligned with modern publishing standards and "cleaned of ancient and irrelevant ephemera [example needed]."
Since the public domain began expanding annually again in 2019, the month of January has typically seen a large number of public domain works uploaded to sites such as Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and Wikimedia Commons. Standard Ebooks usually releases a number of notable newly-public domain books each January 1, and films in the public ...
Because of the possibility of OCR errors, users are shown the scanned pages rather than the digital text to verify the text for themselves. The project was considered a major transformative work for information sciences at the time. [4] Initially, Google only worked with books in the public domain.
This accounts for all of the apocryphal Oz books that sprang forth in the 1980s; once more Oz books entered the public domain, it allowed other authors to use those elements in their own works. All of Baum's other works—non-Oz books, plays, and musicals—are also in the public domain, and have been since 1995 at the latest.
To qualify for purposes of this list, the original media must have originated from the work of an identifiable author or set of co-authors, and must have been adapted into works in at least three forms of media, and must have two or more separate works in at least two of those forms of media (a television series or comic book series is ...
Project Gutenberg Australia hosts many texts that are public domain according to copyright law of Australia, but still under copyright (or of uncertain status) in the United States, with a focus on Australian writers and books about Australia. [58] [55] Project Gutenberg Canada. [59] [55] digital library for Canadian public domain texts.