Hallo all I can only offer some non-legal advice. The Gutenberg project is very good on copyright. If a text is available in the Gutenberg project, one can use it safely
Chaim Seymour On 17 March 2012 20:08, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: > This is probably not a good place to discuss the copyright status of an > existing work. > > It seems to me that the only matters to address here are the technical > question concerning how to get chapters starting with the text pages lined > up as the OP wants. I am surprised that it requires a Master Document to > accomplish, though. > > - Dennis > > MORE THAN YOU MIGHT CARE TO KNOW: > > "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was copyright in 1899 by L. Frank Baum and W. > W. Denslow (the illustrator). It was published in 1900. The original is > no longer under US copyright (that is, it has entered the public domain). > You can still purchase the book. I did that recently, in fact. I first > downloaded a free Kindle version, but it didn't have the illustrations. > > There are versions of the book that have content still in copyright. This > includes versions that have newer illustrations and also books that have > added content about the history of the book, etc. > > For example, the book I purchased recently has the an Afterword that is > copyright 1987. While that notice at the front of the book is accompanied > by boilerplate claiming "No part of this book may be used or reproduced in > any manner whatsoever ... " it can't apply to content that is not subject > to the 1987 copyright. (It happens that the scene I was looking for, and > the dialog that goes with it, "... ignore the man behind the curtain," is > specific to the motion picture, so I didn't find what I was looking for.) > > There is no way of knowing, without further information, what the > copyright status of the bilingual plaintext is, what the rules are in the > jurisdiction where that was produced/is-used, and whether or not the > illustrations being added are subject to someone's copyright. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 06:52 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL > > Hi :) > At a guess "The Wizard of Oz" is copyrighted by some fairly hefty people > that wouldn't like to see copies of the story floating around unless they > got paid for each copy! I'm not even sure they would accept a single > "private use" copy. So, i think this list has to officially assume that > you were just using that name as an example to give us a rough idea of the > sort of size project you are dealing with ;) > > Many of us are far more familiar with copyleft agreements that aim to > help people share and spread ideas and knowledge rather than to try to > contain and cage it to prevent people from learning things. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Sat, 17/3/12, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Saturday, 17 March, 2012, 13:16 > > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 18:41 +0700, John Francis Lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've found a bilingual plain text copy of Wizard of Oz and have set up > > the individual chapters, right page/left page with chapter headings. I > > found the illustrations as well and will print them separately in color > > and just insert them as right pages. > > > > But how do I put all the individual chapters together to make the book? > > > > All the chapters begin with a right hand page. I thought I could just > > insert each chapter, add a blank left page if need be... although I > > thought LibreOffice might be smart enough to put a left page betwen two > > right pages... until I was finished. > > > > If I insert the files into a new file LibreOffice gets stupid and tries > > to use the style settings from Chapter 1 for the whole book... it looks > > like. > > > > I tried inserting the chapters as so-called sections, but LibreOffice > > got stupid again and used its own idea of style to format the thing. > > > > Any help appreciated. > > > > -- > > "This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government > > agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government > > of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or > recipient." > > > > John Francis Lee > > 246/3 Thanon Kaew Wai > > Mueang Chiangrai 57000 > > Thailand > > > What you need to do is use Master Documents. The Writer Guide > contains a chapter on this topic. Link to this guide below: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications. > (FYI: The Writer Guide was written in chapters which were then > combined using Master Documents.) > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Chaim Seymour David Elazar 8 Givat Shemuel 54032 Israel tel: 972-3-5320560 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
