{"id":3095,"date":"2009-07-16T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2009-07-16T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T17:26:27","slug":"copyfraud-poisoning-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/copyfraud-poisoning-the-public-domain.html","title":{"rendered":"Copyfraud &#8211; Poisoning the Public Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/06\/26\/copyfraud\/print.html\"><strong>Copyfraud : Poisoning the Public Domain<\/strong><\/a> is an introduction to some of the ways that content providers (websites, publishers, etc.) abuse copyright protections when they use public domain materials.\u00a0 A couple of minor points, however:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The act of assigning a copyright to something already in the public domain is the issue; taking a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> text, formatting it, and publishing it is of great benefit to people, as long as one doesn&#8217;t claim protection that doesn&#8217;t actually exist for the material.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/\">Creative Commons Public Domain Tools<\/a> is not a license, nor is it\u00a0 an attempt &#8220;to become the arbiter of\u00a0 public domain licensing&#8221;, but a way to allow people to have an easy and effective way to display that a work belongs to the Public Domain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnews.org\/copyfraud_poisoning_public_domain\">LISNews<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyfraud : Poisoning the Public Domain is an introduction to some of the ways that content providers (websites, publishers, etc.) abuse copyright protections when they use public domain materials.\u00a0 A couple of minor points, however: The act of assigning a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/copyfraud-poisoning-the-public-domain.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2918,2921,2925,2929,2934,2937,2945,2952,2962],"tags":[4499,5344,3098,3974,3699,4049,4960],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archival","category-books","category-copyright","category-ethics","category-google","category-history","category-licensing","category-online-services","category-publishing","tag-copyfraud","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-law","tag-creative-commons","tag-project-gutenberg","tag-public-domain","tag-technologyinternet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-NV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}