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Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit

Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit

Paperback

General Law

ISBN10: 1607853736
ISBN13: 9781607853732
Publisher: Michigan Publishing Services
Published: Jun 3 2016
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.72
Height: 0.91 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Copyright is meant to do something--several things--to accomplish socially desirable ends. One of those ends is to create a space for a free exchange of ideas that allows us to build upon a universe of expression that came before.
How can I tell if something is in the public domain? This is the central question addressed daily by the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project. It is a special question and one essential to the social bargain that society has struck with authors and rights holders.

It is also a deceptively simple question. There should be a straightforward answer, especially for books. It should be easy to know when something is--or is not--subject to copyright. And yet, in an age of absolute fluidity of media and medium, even plain old books can be highly complex embodiments of copyright. We need to make it easier to ascertain whether a work is in the public domain. If the rights of copyright holders are to be respected and valued as part of the social bargain, the public domain as a matter of copyright law should be ascertainable and enjoyed

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