ASIN: B008QI42J8
Publisher: Vision 1
Pages: 39
Copy That, will let you know what you can copy and why public domain works are free to grab and republish.What is the public domain? The public domain is the set of cultural works that are free of copyright, and belong to everyone equally.What can I do with a text that is in the public domain?Anything you want! You can copy it, publish it, change its format, distribute it for free or for money. You can translate it to other languages (and claim a copyright on your translation), write a play based on it (if it's a novel), or a novelization (if it's a play). You can take one of the characters from the novel and write a comic strip about him or her, or write a screenplay and sell that to make a movie.You don't need to ask permission from anyone to do any of this. When a text is in the public domain, it belongs as much to you as to anyone.(However, when some character or part of the work is ...
