My reading on this is that you will be able to purchase on-line access to books that are out of print, but still covered by copyright. The copyright holder will receive payment. This would address problems like the Miss Channer book, allowing an individual to buy a digital copy of an out of print, but still under copyright book and the publisher to profit, without having to actually print another run of the book. Books that are public domain (copyright expired) seem to be available for free to read on the internet at Google books. In fact, I just went to google books, searched "lace" and see that there are a number of public domain books that have been scanned in their entirety that can be read for free on line. Some are very hard to buy, like the second edition, 1869, of the Palliser book. Devon In a message dated 10/5/2009 11:47:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Try going to: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/agreement/#4 in there it clearly states this: Online access Once this agreement has been approved, you'll be able to purchase full online access to millions of books. This means you can read an entire book from any Internet-connected computer, simply by logging in to your Book Search account, and it will remain on your electronic bookshelf, so you can come back and access it whenever you want in the future. purchase online access?! Sue in EY On 5 Oct 2009, at 16:39, David C COLLYER wrote: > Brenda, >> Surely once something is out of copyright it is out of copyright and >> anyone can make as many copies as they wish without reference or >> payment to anyone. It's only works which are still within their >> copyright time that copyright owners can sell or licence the rights >> to. > > I'm fairly sure that with music copyright CAN be taken out again > later. It may have happened to "The Pirates of Penzance" for example > when it received a revival some 20 years ago. > > So perhaps this can also happen with books. > David in Ballarat - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected] - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
