What is public domain of book?
Public domain of inteligent products has different meaning in different country. In the United States, books or other inteligent products are regarded as public domain if they originally printed in the US and:
- Their copyright has expired normally (they were published in or prior to 1922), or
- They were published between 1923 and 1964 (inclusive) and the copyright was not renewed, or
- They were published by the US Government.
- In addition, books printed outside the US in or before 1922 are in the public domain in the US.
Books and other content become public domain in different ways in different countries. So if you reside outside the US, you will have to use different criteria to determine if a text is in the public domain. In some countries, this is determined by the date of death of the author. For instance, in the United Kindom or European Union books become public domain 70 years after the death of the author. This means that some books are in the public domain in the US but not the UK. For instance, the book 'The Tarot Unveiled' was published in 1910 in England. This means that it is in the public domain in the US (it was published prior to 1922). However, the author, E.A. Waite, died in 1942. For this reason this book will not enter the public domain in the UK or the EU until 2012.
Public domain files can be used for any purposes. You may:
Download, print and make copies of them for personal purposes;
Email them to a friend;
Use them for your class or study group;
Link your website to them;
Post copies of them on your website;
Embed the copy at sacred-texts in a frame at your website;
Use them in a paper for school;
Quote them in part or entirety in print: in a book, magazine, etc.;
Create derivative works: edited versions, anthologies, software products which use quotes from them, etc.;
Translate them into other languages;
etc. etc. etc.;
without asking anyone.