http://www.metafilter.com/tags/eldredvsashcroft Posts tagged with 'eldredvsashcroft' at MetaFilter. Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:53:29 -0800 Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:53:29 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/26445/Its%2DPublic%2DDomain%2DAll%2DOver%2DAgain <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/eldred/petition.html">Ask not what the public domain can do for you...</a> (...ask what you can do for the public domain.) The <a href="http://www.eldred.cc/">Eldred vs. Ashcroft</a> folks are circulating a petition proposing a federal law requiring $1 copyright renewal after 50 years, or the work hits the public domain. The name-rank-serial# form has an interesting question: List something you have created using the public domain. Some of the answers: <a href="http://raph.levien.com/audiobook/aesop.html">Audiotexts of Aesop's Fables</a>, <a href="http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~odonnell/OData/Courses/22C:096/Library/Discours/discours-notes.html">annotation of Descartes' <i>Discours</i></a>, <a href="http://www.snible.org/coins/hn/">Digital Historia Numorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics</a>, <a href="http://www.cpdl.org/">choral sheet-music library</a>, <a href="http://www.unknown.nu/mercury/">Mercury Theatre on the Air</a>, <a href="http://ishtar.cdemusic.org/roxann/">a pop opera based on <i>Cyrano</i></a>, <a href="http://ishtar.cdemusic.org/roxann/">NASA images jigsaw puzzle</a>, <a href="http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/proverbs/">French proverbs from 1611</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/bats/">blind audio tactile mapping system</a>, <a href="http://www.cadytech.com/dumas/">Alexandre Dumas p&#0232;re website</a>, <a href="http://www.lightandmatter.com/"><i>Light and Matter</i> physics text</a>, <a href="http://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/">Voice of Hibakusha: Eyewitness accounts of Hiroshima</a>, <a href="http://sims.berkeley.edu/~agm/RNAWEB/index.htm">Distributed RNA Secondary Structure Prediction</a>, <a href="http://cow.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/fitting.html">least-squares fitting library</a>, <a href="http://www.algonet.se/~ath/">collection of chess problem books</a>, <a href="http://www.princelystates.com/">Philately of the Princely States of India</a>, <a href="http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/index.html">Oremus Hymnal</a>, <a href="http://core.ecu.edu/hist/cecelskid/">Allen Parker slave narrative site</a>, <a href="http://tonypatti.com/oldsite/faves/texts/johnsons_ramblers.htm">Samuel Johnson's <i>Ramblers</i></a>, <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mdtaffet/MOSES/chester_taxlists.html">18th-century Chester Co. PA tax lists<a href="http://www.tonykline.btinternet.co.uk/">translation of Jose Zorrilla's <i>Don Juan</i> (1844) </a>, <a href="http://lrc.lib.umn.edu/dsala.htm">Digital South-Asia Language Archive</a>, <a href="http://www.sripedia.org/">Vedic etexts</a>, <a href="http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/steel/">Gary Indiana U.S. Steel Works Photograph Collection</a>, et al. The above list was so diverse...led me to wonder, what works have Mefites created using public domain materials?</a> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.26445 Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:53:29 -0800 copyright eldredvsashcroft publicdomain jengod