Category Archives: Public domain

The brilliance of Flickr Commons and the public domain

Posted on 10 April 2008 by Gavin Baker

Flickr’s The Commons is a really clever initiative. Flickr gets high-value historical content (the kind of stuff that drives the long tail) and some nice publicity. The collections get to bring their content to many new users in a new … Continue reading →

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Another contribution to the commons — this one’s a Spanish textbook

Posted on 11 January 2008 by Gavin Baker

A book which I scanned has just been posted to Project Gutenberg, free (gratis and public domain) to the world. It’s a textbook for learning Spanish: Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios, by Lawrence Wilkins and Max Luria, from 1916. It’s Project … Continue reading →

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