Isaac Newton and the Public Domain
Isaac Newton , one of the greatest thinkers the world has seen, once wrote "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants."
to explain how he had come to make so many significant scientific breakthroughs and how he could not have done so without the contributions of great people in history. For me, this is a good quote to explain how important the public domain is to all of us, it is our collective history, free for anyone to use, learn and repakage into other works. I wanted to highlight the good work of a couple of organisations that are bringing the public domain to all of us. These include:
http://librivox.org,
whose mandate is :"To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet." It
looks like they re-release their books immediately in the public domain.
There is also the long standing
Project Guttenburg that aims to put public domain books on the Internet.
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