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ohcnetwork
Feb 20th 2005, 12:57 am
Is there any website or directory that provides content that you can legally copy, modify and distribute? Like Wikipedia?

You can use SE to look for content in public domain, but it takes quite an effort to go through SERP to find anything useful, so I'm wondering if there is some central location that I can access content in public domain or that distributed under GPL.
Spyware Remover
Feb 20th 2005, 2:14 am
Great question. I look forward to what answers you receive.

AJ
Old Welsh Guy
Feb 20th 2005, 2:17 am
There are lots of places where you can get articles etc for your site, but while you can use them, you can't then modify them and pass them off as your own content. I personally don't know of any big resource that does this.
ohcnetwork
Feb 20th 2005, 12:16 pm
http://www.commoncontent.org/ is a good place to check, but they only compile links; they don't compile content.
walela
Feb 20th 2005, 12:31 pm
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jasonleexxx
Feb 24th 2005, 1:29 am
There are lots of places where you can get articles etc for your site, but while you can use them, you can't then modify them and pass them off as your own content. I personally don't know of any big resource that does this.

Derivative works are allowed though your allowed to use a piece and furthur it to it as long as u cite it.
SEbasic
Feb 24th 2005, 1:38 am
Here is another good place to look...

http://creativecommons.org/text/
!B-F
Mar 11th 2005, 12:41 am
You might want to take a look at US Government publication as most of them do not have copyrights attached to them.
ohcnetwork
Mar 11th 2005, 1:03 am
You might want to take a look at US Government publication as most of them do not have copyrights attached to them.
Actually they do in a sense. They specifically state that the document is in public domain. They also need to do that, because the current copyright law makes any content on the web copyrighted to the author automatically, i.e., if the type of copyright is not explicitly specified, then the content is copyrighted to the author, it's not in public domain or GPLed (automatically).
Kadence
Mar 11th 2005, 9:55 pm
I recently heard about goarticles.com. Never used anything from them, but I believe all you need to do to use the articles there is to give an author credit.
clasione
Mar 12th 2005, 10:38 pm
Wikipedia is the best I've found but the only problem is to use it legally you must state it's a GPL and allow other users or viewers to copy it....
!B-F
May 5th 2005, 9:33 pm
Actually they do in a sense. They specifically state that the document is in public domain. They also need to do that, because the current copyright law makes any content on the web copyrighted to the author automatically, i.e., if the type of copyright is not explicitly specified, then the content is copyrighted to the author, it's not in public domain or GPLed (automatically).


Actually, they don't since they don't qualify for copyright protection to begin with.

Works by the U. S. Government are not eligible for U. S. copyright protection.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#piu
tdave
Nov 5th 2009, 12:03 pm
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I believe you spammed or you posted at the wrong place.

Actually, they don't since they don't qualify for copyright protection to begin with.



http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#piu

The address you give is not a functioning page on the site. Do you have any source to support your point?