According to the Library of Congress, only 17% of the music published between 1948 and 1966 is currently available on CD. [08/20/08]
"Copyright holders who engage in open source licensing have the right to control the modification and distribution of copyrighted material."
[08/19/2008]
The US Library of Congress and other EU bodies issued a joint report on digital preservation and copyright.
How to enhance meaning and scope of the public domain in every day life? Here is a great example!
Expanding the success of resources such as the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg, LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Its volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files (in mp3 or ogg vorbis formats) back on the Internet.
Launched in August 2005, by Hugh McGuire, a Montreal-based writer and web developer, the project has catalogued so far more than 1,300 books, spanning from "Paradise Lost" to the "Bhagavad Gita", from the complete Aesop’s Fables to writings by E. A. Poe, E. Pound, R. W. Emerson, B. Russell.
LibriVox main goal is to record all the books that are public domain in the USA (the copyright status of these works is different in other countries). The database includes also some recordings in languages other than English (Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish, etc.), and most information about the project is available in many languages as well.
Aimed at the "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain", LibriVox is a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
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