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06 Jul '10
5th Annual World eBook Fair Provides 3.7 Million Free Titles
The 5th Annual World eBook Fair hopes to hand out 1 million
to 2 million eBooks every day from July 4 to August 4 for a
total of 50 million eBooks in a single month.
Once again The World eBook Fair has added over a million new
freely downloadable items in a single year to offer you many
new items in many new formats, errors corrected, etc.
About a million of these bear smaller resemblance to today's
average eBook, as they have been proofread and formatted for
easier reading, search, and research, and many are available
in various formats that include cellphones, PDA's, etc.
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of eBooks with us July 4th to
August 4th. . .Pick Up A Personal eLibrary from 3.7+ million
eBooks, not to mention music, movies, artwork, etc.
All you have to do is visit the portal at:
http://www.worldebookfair.org
and follow the pointers to the following collections, etc.
. . .
The 40th year of eBooks will start on July 4 with 3.5+ million
FREE eBooks available at http://www.worldebookfair.org
These books run the range from light to heavy literature and a
host of other subjects and have been made available for you by
hundreds of eLibraries around the world from extreme polish of
The World Public Library's 750,000 titles to Project Gutenberg
with over 100,000 well proofread eBooks to the 2+ million from
The Internet Archive.
eBooks will be available in over 100 languages!!!
All of these should be in the public domain in the US, as well
as in most other countries. Check your local copyright law to
be sure they are public domain in your location.
If you ever wondered why you should buy a new terabyte drive--
this is the reason. . .you can put a million plain text eBooks
on a terabyte drive at a million characters per book. This is
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terabyte drive with about 2.5 million similarly sized eBooks.
2.5 million eBooks in the palm of your hand!!! For $75!!!
. . .
Details:
Here is a handful of the largest collections:
As of Monday, June 28, 2010 there were approximately:
2,378,397 from The Internet Archive
750,000 from World Public Library
400,000 from Wattpad
112,000 from Project Gutenberg
62,000 from International Music Score Library Project
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3,702,397 Grand Total
Please note that archive.org and PG etc. have many
audio files, movies, music files, etc. with totals
of an additional ~.5 million files.
Many of these eBooks are available for cellphones.
5,000 to 10,000 titles will be added each week.
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some editions appear in more than one collection.
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Millions of eBooks in a variety of formats, as well as recordings
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QiC-technology that converts plain text to common JAR format.
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cell phones world wide.
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Founded in 2006, Wattpad is now the world's most popular
ebook community. Wattpad has revolutionized the way
people read written works by providing a social
networking platform for readers and writers to discover,
share and connect. Anyone can publish what they have
written on Wattpad a romantic story, a piece of
science fiction, poetry, an essay or a novel,
and interact with readers and fans.
Content is easily accessible through Wattpad's website and
with Wattpad apps available for over 1,000 mobile devices
including iPad/iPhone, BlackBerry, Google Android, Nokia,
Samsung and the majority of popular brands and models.
Wattpad has experienced explosive growth since its
inception and has become the world's most popular
destination to publish and read ebooks. Wattpad delivers
billions of pages from its library of hundreds of
thousands of works created and published by the Wattpad
community. Millions of readers visit Wattpad every month
on www.wattpad.com and through their mobile apps.
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>From the Projects page, check out a book you like to work on
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guided through the whole process - all the way from scanning
to a pleasantly readable e-book available to millions.
(Links will be more ordered thematically and by language
in the near future...site still under construction, so we
can't give firm details)
Contact:
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sure you honor copyrights where indicated, and check your own local
copyright laws before presuming the others are in public domain out
of the U.S. copyright jurisdiction. Copyright laws are changing so
you might want to ask at your local libraries.
While most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are in the public domain
there many that are copyrighted for a variety of reasons. Before a
sales attempt, we suggest you consult a copyright attorney after an
earlier reading of the information accompanying each title.
While most of The World eBook Fair Materials are free of charge for
any personal use via The World eBook Fair, note all copyrights.
Grand Totals, Sub-Totals, etc.
Please note: In any combination of large collections of books will
be any number of duplications, sometimes of the same edition or the
same title and author, but a different edition. For example, these
collections each have a number of editions of Shakespeare's works--
but--in addition to this, both World Public Library and in Internet
Archive collections, as well as many other such collections, nearly
all of the Project Gutenberg collection appears. In addition, many
of the items at http://www.gutenberg.cc are new electronic editions
of the original Project Gutenberg editions at http://gutenberg.org.
Out of each million eBooks presented in The World eBook Fair, I may
guess that about 10%, or 100,000, are more or less duplicates of an
electronic edition available in one of the other collections.
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!@! EXTRA: COPYRIGHT REVISIONS IN CANADA: HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NONE
by Michael S. Hart 23 Jun '10
by Michael S. Hart 23 Jun '10
23 Jun '10
COPYRIGHT REVISIONS IN CANADA: HALF A LOAF IS BETTER THAN NONE
by Mark Akrigg
Project Gutenberg Canada
**Life+50 duration retained**
The basic Life+50 copyright term is safe in Canada, at least for now.
There has been considerable pressure from foreign governments for Canada to
extend its copyright term, but the Copyright Act revisions unveiled in June
left the basic term of copyright unchanged. For this, the government deserves
our thanks and congratulations. They have upheld the public interest.
**Copyright extensions for some photographs and audio recordings**
However, harmful copyright extensions for some photographs and audio
recordings are proposed in the new Bill C-32, making an unwelcome return.
These provisions had been part of Bill C-61, a copyright bill introduced
before the last election, but never passed. Now these provisions are back.
For an explanation of these changes, and why they are harmful, see the Project
Gutenberg Canada submission to last summer's government-sponsored Copyright
Consultations:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/01390.html
**Nothing done to protect the public domain**
My submission to the government dealt largely with the issue of works where
the life dates of the authors are not known. Such situations are very common,
but the Copyright Act makes no provision for them. The preposterous result is
that such works have to be 140 years old before we can treat them as being in
the public domain. We proposed that specific provision be made for such
works, so that they are treated as being part of the public domain after 75
years. It is unlikely that such a provision would have encountered
significant opposition had it been proposed.
But it was not proposed.
The Saskatchewan Archives Board made a submission last summer explaining why
the copyright rules for photographs in place since the late nineties are
unworkable:
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/008.nsf/eng/01676.html
Nothing was done to address the Archives Board's simple and practical
suggestion of "a fixed term of copyright protection for photographs. The term
of fifty years from the creation that was used in the copyright law previously
is preferable from an archival perspective. A fixed term makes it easier to
determine the term of protection because the only information needed to make
the determination is the date the photograph was created."
It is nothing short of astounding that a solidly reasoned and entirely
straightforward suggestion from a provincial archive board should have been
ignored. The situation is even more astounding considering that 13 of the 14
MPs for Saskatchewan are members of the governing party, and are certainly in
a position to do something for their province.
**Digital locks**
The most controversial part of the bill is the absolute prohibition on
bypassing digital locks, even in the many cases where this is done for
entirely legal purposes, such as those allowed under fair use provisions.
The best explanation I have seen of this situation was provided in the Calgary
Herald, an Alberta newspaper, by Rory McGreal, associate vice-president,
research, at Athabasca University, a public university in Alberta:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Copyright+bill+could+digitally+lock…
All but one of Alberta's federal seats are held by the Conservative Party, and
the Prime Minister is the member for Calgary Southwest. Albertans are
certainly within their rights to ask their Members of Parliament to act in the
best interest of Albertans.
**What should Canadian supporters of the free ebooks movement do?**
The simplest and most effective thing to do is to contact your Member of
Parliament. Here is the contact information that you need:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalC…
Parliament has begun its recess, and MPs will be back in their ridings for the
summer. This is an excellent time to contact them, while they are close at
hand. In the fall, detailed consideration of the bill will begin. There is
also a strong possibility of a fall election. This means that sitting members
and nominated candidates will certainly be in a mood to listen to you, for the
moment at least! Points you might wish to emphasize are:
(1) An attack on the public domain is an attack on the public. Canada offers
generous copyright protection. Copyright extensions are not only unnecessary,
they are grievously harmful.
(2) Inaccessible parts of the public domain must be made accessible.
Incompletely documented works older than 75 years should be considered part of
the public domain. It is ridiculous that some works dating to the middle of
the reign of Victoria should be inaccessible to the public,
(3) Digital locks are prone to abuse by corporations, and are not entitled to
any kind of special protection. In fact, such practices as regional coding of
DVDs, making DVDs legally acquired in Europe and Asia unplayable in Canada,
are an unacceptable infringement of the property rights of individual
Canadians, and should be banned outright.
**CONGRATULATIONS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF YOUR SUPPORT**
Last year, many of you were among the thousands of Canadians who made
submissions to the government's Copyright Consultations. Your submissions
were effective. One message that was unmistakable last summer was how
strongly opposed the Canadian public is to copyright extensions.
You spoke, and, to their great credit, the government listened. The basic
Canadian copyright term remains in place.
Thank you, and keep up the good work!
Mark Akrigg
Project Gutenberg Canada
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The Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter--June 21, 2010
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We are currently giving away about 100,000 books a day,
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About 3 million eBooks per month or 36 million per year
In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with
8M "IBM Memory Sticks" available for about $60 and also
16M and 32M size were available.
Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from
over the counter stores for $20.
I just bought a somewhat larger "terabyte pocket drive"
for $75 over the counter. Larger is a relative term in
this case, it's still pocket-sized, but just requires a
doubly larger pocket and the weight is noticeable and a
"wall wart" power supply is required, so _I_ should NOT
think the term "pocket-sized would be appropriate but I
bought it anyway, sight unseen, due to misunderstanding
or being misled by the advertizing.
Still, it's no larger and not much heavier than a book,
and it will hold 2.5 million such books in .zip format.
Think for just a moment about how much a terabyte would
cost you back in the year 2000, how much power it took,
and how hard it would be to fill it up.
Google wouldn't even announce its "invention" of eBooks
for about 5 more years, Project Gutenberg wouldn't have
10,000 titles for another 2 3/4 years, so just think of
the changes we have in store by 2020, the next decade.
We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do
have them already by then, and all of the findable book
titles that are public domain should have been put into
at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all.
It should be simple to hold each word ever published, a
billion books of a million pages each, uncompressed and
2.5 billion such titles, using compressed formats which
should be the default by then.
However, the rules will likely have been changed again,
and perhaps yet again, to stop the public domain and to
insure that copyright is more and permanent not so much
for the additional few percent in sales, but mostly for
the purpose of preserving and protecting:
"The Digital Divide."
Our 300th Italian eBook is coming up!!!
Please send in your suggestions for title #300!!!
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30 Months to The End of the World Via Mayan Calendaring
on December 21, 2012 [some now saying October 11, 2011]
Leaving 2 years 6 months, 10 seasons, or 30 months.
[Leaving 1 year 4 months, 5 1/3 seasons, or 16 months.]
[All bracketed figures minus 10 days, of course.]
Not to worry, I will still make long range predictions,
such as that there will be affordable petabytes [2021],
and enough eBooks to fill an entire petabyte around the
same time. Current long range prediction for drives:
1 petabyte drives in 2025, possibly even in 2022, along
with 1 terabyte solid state drives [SSDs]. 1 petabyte=
enough storage for every word ever published, 1 billion
books of 1 million characters each.
>From June 21, 2010 to December 21, 2012 is 30 Months.
June 21, 2010 to October 11, 2011 is 16 Months -10 days.
Request:
1894 Dr. Johnson Edition of:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare collection.
Missing volumes 2 & 6. Got all the other volumes for a
couple dollars at a garage sale, but will pay 20 dollars
each for for volumes 2 & 6.
GENERATION CHANGE
I got a book this week called "Generation Change," that
lists "150 Ways We Can Change Ourselves, Our Country,
and Our World." Most of these 150 items come with some
suggestion of sites to visit on the Internet. #1 is:
PROJECT GUTNBERG!!!!!!!
"Generation Change" is available from:
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or would like to optimize for any other devices.
There are 4.5 billion such devices in the world, versus
only 1.15 billion computers, and more and more readers,
in spite of what the pundits say, are surfing, reading,
and everything else on such mobile devices.
More and more such devices will ONLY surf to "m" sites
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I think you will find some interesting additional searching
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Details:
The goal I'm aiming at with this initiative is twofold.
I'd like to provide as much useful information as possible
about e-books (freely) available on the web, where to find them.
And secondly, to offer people the opportunity to help out,
producing e-text for PG, in first instance by doing a first
round of proofreading on texts I deliver.
People who want to do more are welcome to and can count on help
in going through the process from start to finish.
Experienced proofers who enjoy working on a complete book
are also very welcome.
Marc D'Hooge
marcdH(a)belgium-mail.com
APPROACHING NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS,
DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS!
THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!!
Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this
upcoming event before it even starts to happen!!!
Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various
copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S.
In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced
in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite
literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years.
Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!!
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
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Wed 2010-06-16 | 17
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Fri 2010-06-18 | 20
Sat 2010-06-19 | 17
Sun 2010-06-20 | 35
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Sat 2010-05-15 | 20
Sun 2010-05-16 | 7
Mon 2010-05-17 | 7
Tue 2010-05-18 | 12
Wed 2010-05-19 | 25
Thu 2010-05-20 | 19
Weekly total = 88
week up to Apr. 21
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Wed 2010-04-14 | 14
Thu 2010-04-15 | 11
Fri 2010-04-16 | 12
Sat 2010-04-17 | 19
Sun 2010-04-18 | 12
Mon 2010-04-19 | 19
Tue 2010-04-20 | 7
Weekly total = 94
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Sun 2010-03-14 | 9
Mon 2010-03-15 | 16
Tue 2010-03-16 | 11
Wed 2010-03-17 | 12
Thu 2010-03-18 | 16
Fri 2010-03-19 | 6
Sat 2010-03-20 | 11
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Week up to Feb. 21
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Mon 2010-02-15 | 12
Tue 2010-02-16 | 10
Wed 2010-02-17 | 16
Thu 2010-02-18 | 11
Fri 2010-02-19 | 4
Sat 2010-02-20 | 4
Weekly total = 62
Week up to Jan. 21st:
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Thu 2010-01-14 | 8
Fri 2010-01-15 | 13
Sat 2010-01-16 | 16
Sun 2010-01-17 | 8
Mon 2010-01-18 | 12
Tue 2010-01-19 | 5
Wed 2010-01-20 | 11
Weekly total = 73
Previous Month 12/09
day | cnt
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Mon 2009-12-14 | 11
Tue 2009-12-15 | 4
Wed 2009-12-16 | 4
Thu 2009-12-17 | 10
Fri 2009-12-18 | 7
Sat 2009-12-19 | 7
Sun 2009-12-20 | 9
Previous month: 11/09
day | cnt
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Sat 2009-11-14 | 6
Sun 2009-11-15 | 4
Mon 2009-11-16 | 6
Tue 2009-11-17 | 9
Wed 2009-11-18 | 3
Thu 2009-11-19 | 6
Fri 2009-11-20 | 5
Weekly total = 39
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1 27597 English en
2 1605 French fr
3 685 German de
4 529 Finnish fi
5 481 Dutch nl
6 450 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 244 Italian it
May 21st
Grand total for today: 32366
1 27176 English en
2 1598 French fr
3 680 German de
4 527 Finnish fi
5 479 Dutch nl
6 433 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 242 Italian it
Apr 21st
Grand total for today: 31975
26832 English en
1590 French fr
674 German de
526 Finnish fi
476 Dutch nl
424 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
284 Spanish es
236 Italian it
N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language,
up to the top two, of course, tied for third.
What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running?
Mar 21st
Grand total for today: 31616
26540 English en
1568 French fr
662 German de
524 Finnish fi
472 Dutch nl
410 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
283 Spanish es
235 Italian it
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to the last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
+214
+205
+254
+281
+294
+287
All Reported Languges
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32,841 up from 32,366 up 475 PG General Automated Count
1,854 up from 1,851 up 3 PG of Australia [Vacation]
716 up from 712 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
558 up from 536 up 22 PG of Canada
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37,977 up from 37,473 up 504 Grand Total
May 21st
Grand totals for today:
32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation]
712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada
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37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost one!]
Apr 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???]
704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada
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37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total [off by 1, ooops!]
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1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
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36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
Feb 21st
Grand totals for today:
31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
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October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
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Jan 21st
Grand totals for today:
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
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35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
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day | cnt
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Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
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35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]
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Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
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32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
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...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
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APPROACHING NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS,
DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS!
THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!!
Suggestions are more than welcome how to publicize this
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literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years.
Here's Why We Need To Start Before The Issue Arises!!!
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the
allowed buyer of NBC?
If you think programming won't leak over:
Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
Anyone remember Reboot?
I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
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"limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is
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Sat 2010-05-15 | 20
Sun 2010-05-16 | 7
Mon 2010-05-17 | 7
Tue 2010-05-18 | 12
Wed 2010-05-19 | 25
Thu 2010-05-20 | 19
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Thu 2010-04-15 | 11
Fri 2010-04-16 | 12
Sat 2010-04-17 | 19
Sun 2010-04-18 | 12
Mon 2010-04-19 | 19
Tue 2010-04-20 | 7
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Mon 2010-03-15 | 16
Tue 2010-03-16 | 11
Wed 2010-03-17 | 12
Thu 2010-03-18 | 16
Fri 2010-03-19 | 6
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Mon 2010-02-15 | 12
Tue 2010-02-16 | 10
Wed 2010-02-17 | 16
Thu 2010-02-18 | 11
Fri 2010-02-19 | 4
Sat 2010-02-20 | 4
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Fri 2010-01-15 | 13
Sat 2010-01-16 | 16
Sun 2010-01-17 | 8
Mon 2010-01-18 | 12
Tue 2010-01-19 | 5
Wed 2010-01-20 | 11
Weekly total = 73
Previous Month 12/09
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Tue 2009-12-15 | 4
Wed 2009-12-16 | 4
Thu 2009-12-17 | 10
Fri 2009-12-18 | 7
Sat 2009-12-19 | 7
Sun 2009-12-20 | 9
Previous month: 11/09
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Sun 2009-11-15 | 4
Mon 2009-11-16 | 6
Tue 2009-11-17 | 9
Wed 2009-11-18 | 3
Thu 2009-11-19 | 6
Fri 2009-11-20 | 5
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Here are the current language totals
for languages with 200 or more eBooks.
May 21st
Grand total for today: 32366
1 27176 English en
2 1598 French fr
3 680 German de
4 527 Finnish fi
5 479 Dutch nl
6 433 Portuguese pt
7 405 Chinese zh
8 287 Spanish es
9 242 Italian it
Apr 21st
Grand total for today: 31975
26832 English en
1590 French fr
674 German de
526 Finnish fi
476 Dutch nl
424 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
284 Spanish es
236 Italian it
N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language,
up to the top two, of course, tied for third.
What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running?
Mar 21st
Grand total for today: 31616
26540 English en
1568 French fr
662 German de
524 Finnish fi
472 Dutch nl
410 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
283 Spanish es
235 Italian it
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to the last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
+214
+205
+254
+281
+294
+287
All Reported Languges
Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe
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May 21st
Grand totals for today:
32,366 up from 31,975 up 391 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [Vacation]
712 up from 704 up 8 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
536 up from 521 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,473 up from 37,053 up 421 Grand Total [found lost one!]
Apr 21st
!!!!!Grand total for today:
31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count
1,851 up from 1,845 -- 5 PG of Australia [???]
704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,054 up from 36,672 up 386 Grand Total [off by 1, ooops!]
700th PGEu eBook Posted!!!
Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours.
Mar 21st
31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count
1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
======
36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
Feb 21st
31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
======
36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
Jan 21st
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
======
35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
Previous month:
35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
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Here is how we ended 2009
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
====== ======
35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]
9.825 eBooks Per Day
68.773 eBooks Per Week
297.850 eBooks Per Month
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Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
====== ======
32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost
to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about
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32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calculating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
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OLDER NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS,
DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS!
THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!!
Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various
copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S.
In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced
in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite
literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years.
Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension?
or
If not stop them, at least publicize them a little?
Suggestions are more than welcome.
I should add that this is probably a losing battle even
if it looks as if we are winning.
Here's why:
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the
allowed buyer of NBC?
If you think programming won't leak over:
Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
Anyone remember Reboot?
I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
I fear that all of them underestimate the power working
to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words
"limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is
really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft."
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Thu 2010-04-15 | 11
Fri 2010-04-16 | 12
Sat 2010-04-17 | 19
Sun 2010-04-18 | 12
Mon 2010-04-19 | 19
Tue 2010-04-20 | 7
week up to Mar. 21
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Mon 2010-03-15 | 16
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Week up to Feb. 21
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Wed 2010-02-17 | 16
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Fri 2010-02-19 | 4
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Week up to Jan. 21st:
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Fri 2010-01-15 | 13
Sat 2010-01-16 | 16
Sun 2010-01-17 | 8
Mon 2010-01-18 | 12
Tue 2010-01-19 | 5
Wed 2010-01-20 | 11
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Previous Month
day | cnt
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Mon 2009-12-14 | 11
Tue 2009-12-15 | 4
Wed 2009-12-16 | 4
Thu 2009-12-17 | 10
Fri 2009-12-18 | 7
Sat 2009-12-19 | 7
Sun 2009-12-20 | 9
Previous month:
day | cnt
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Sat 2009-11-14 | 6
Sun 2009-11-15 | 4
Mon 2009-11-16 | 6
Tue 2009-11-17 | 9
Wed 2009-11-18 | 3
Thu 2009-11-19 | 6
Fri 2009-11-20 | 5
Thanks to Marcello Perathoner!
///
Here are the current language totals
for languages with 200 or more eBooks.
Apr 21st
Grand total for today: 31975
26832 English en
1590 French fr
674 German de
526 Finnish fi
476 Dutch nl
424 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
284 Spanish es
236 Italian it
N.B. Portuguese added as many as any other language,
up to the top two, of course, tied for third.
What do we need to do to get Spanish up and running?
Mar 21st
Grand total for today: 31616
26540 English en
1568 French fr
662 German de
524 Finnish fi
472 Dutch nl
410 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
283 Spanish es
235 Italian it
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
+214
+205
+254
+281
+294
+287
All Reported Languges
Not counting PrePrints, Canada, Australia, PG Europe
Thanks to Greg Newby!
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[Don't forget ~75,000 at http://www.gutenberg.cc in .pdf]
Apr 21st
!!!!!Grand total for today:
31,975 up from 31,616 up 359 PG General Automated Count
1,845 -- 1,845 -- 0 PG of Australia [???]
704 up from 699 up 5 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
521 up from 504 up 17 PG of Canada
======
37,048 up from 36,672 up 381 Grand Total [off by 1, ooops!]
700th PGEu eBook Posted!!!
Serving over 2,000 users in 24 hours.
Mar 21st
31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count
1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
======
36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
Feb 21st
31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
======
36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
Jan 21st
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
======
35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
Previous month:
35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
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Here is how we ended 2009
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
====== ======
35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]
9.825 eBooks Per Day
68.773 eBooks Per Week
297.850 eBooks Per Month
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Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
====== ======
32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost
to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about
the number of books in the average U.S. public library
32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calculating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
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> Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
> NOT extend copyrights.
>
> Really.
>
> However, just three years later, under economic warfare
> from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
> to the pressure and gave in.
>
>
> The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
> and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
> those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
> they, too, crumble before it is over.
>
> I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
>
>
>
> Further Information
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>
> As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
> characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
> start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
> be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
> that are designed to go into effect before anything can
> happen to those two copyrights.
>
> As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
> successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
> as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
> another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
> fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
> effective date of 1978.
>
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> to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
>
> Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
> must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
> few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
> means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
> soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
>
> Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
> session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
> snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
> starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
>
> Why?
>
> Even during the election just before the last extension
> I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
> new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
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>
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>
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>
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>
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> allowed buyer of NBC?
>
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>
> Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
>
> Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
> output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
>
> Anyone remember Reboot?
>
>
> I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
> I fear that all of them underestimate the power working
> to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words
> "limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
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> Mon 2010-03-15 | 16
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> Wed 2010-03-17 | 12
> Thu 2010-03-18 | 16
> Fri 2010-03-19 | 6
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> Wed 2010-02-17 | 16
> Thu 2010-02-18 | 11
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> Sat 2010-02-20 | 4
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> 62
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> day | cnt
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> Thu 2010-01-14 | 8
> Fri 2010-01-15 | 13
> Sat 2010-01-16 | 16
> Sun 2010-01-17 | 8
> Mon 2010-01-18 | 12
> Tue 2010-01-19 | 5
> Wed 2010-01-20 | 11
> ==
> 73
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>
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> Mon 2009-12-14 | 11
> Tue 2009-12-15 | 4
> Wed 2009-12-16 | 4
> Thu 2009-12-17 | 10
> Fri 2009-12-18 | 7
> Sat 2009-12-19 | 7
> Sun 2009-12-20 | 9
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> Sat 2009-11-14 | 6
> Sun 2009-11-15 | 4
> Mon 2009-11-16 | 6
> Tue 2009-11-17 | 9
> Wed 2009-11-18 | 3
> Thu 2009-11-19 | 6
> Fri 2009-11-20 | 5
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> Mar 21st
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> 26540 English en
> 1568 French fr
> 662 German de
> 524 Finnish fi
> 472 Dutch nl
> 410 Portuguese pt
> 405 Chinese zh
> 283 Spanish es
> 235 Italian it
>
>
> Feb. 21st
>
>
> Grand total for today: 31234
>
> 26241 English en
> 1557 French fr
> 647 German de
> 521 Finnish fi
> 470 Dutch nl
> 405 Chinese zh
> 395 Portuguese pt
> 275 Spanish es
> 234 Italian it
>
>
> Jan. 21st
>
> Grand total for today: 30935
>
> 25995 English en
> 1547 French fr
> 628 German de
> 518 Finnish fi
> 459 Dutch nl
> 405 Chinese zh
> 391 Portuguese pt
> 274 Spanish es
> 230 Italian it
>
>
> Compared to last month:
>
>
> Grand total
>
> 25757 English en
> 1520 French fr
> 618 German de
> 515 Finnish fi
> 453 Dutch nl
> 405 Chinese zh
> 376 Portuguese pt
> 270 Spanish es
> 220 Italian it
>
>
>
> Compared to previous month's:
>
>
> Grand total for today: 30399
>
> 25587 English en
> 1498 French fr
> 614 German de
> 515 Finnish fi
> 451 Dutch nl
> 404 Chinese zh
> 371 Portuguese pt
> 268 Spanish es
> 218 Italian it
>
>
>
> Previous increases:
>
> +214
> +205
> +254
> +281
> +294
> +287
>
>
> All Reported Languges
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>
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> 1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
> 699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
> 2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
> 504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
> ======
> 36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
>
>
>
> Feb 21st
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> 31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
> 1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
> 684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
> 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
> 486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
> Posted #400 on October 10
> July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
> August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
> September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
> October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
> November: 9 [up to November 21]
> December: 19[up to December 21]
> ======
> 36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
>
>
> Jan 21st
>
> 30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
> 1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
> 680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
> 2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
> 462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
> Posted #400 on October 10
> ======
> 35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
>
>
>
> Previous month:
>
> 35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
>
>
> 35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
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> ///
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> Here is how we ended 2009
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>
>
> day | cnt
> ----------------+-----
> Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
> Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
> Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
> Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
> Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
> Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
> Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
>
> Weekly Total 65
>
>
>
> Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
>
> 25866 English en
> 1531 French fr
> 625 German de
> 517 Finnish fi
> 455 Dutch nl
> 405 Chinese zh
> 384 Portuguese pt
> 270 Spanish es
> 225 Italian it
> etc.
>
>
>
> 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
> 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
> 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
> 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada
> [Estimated]
> 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese
> eBooks]
> ====== ======
> 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting
> subtractions]
>
>
> 9.825 eBooks Per Day
> 68.773 eBooks Per Week
> 297.850 eBooks Per Month
>
>
>
>
> ///
>
>
> Here is how we ended 2008
>
>
>
> 27,616 PG General Automated Count
> 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
> 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
> 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
> [202 up to December, no current report]
> 2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
> ====== ======
> 32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
>
>
>
>
> Here is how we ended 2007
>
> The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
>
>
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> 78 per week
> 11.13 per day
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>
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> PG-AU
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> PG Canada
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OLDER NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
U.S. COPYRIGHTS TO BE EXTENDED TO 115 YEARS,
DECADE BY DECADE FROM THE ORIGINAL 14 YEARS!
THE SUPREME COURT SAYS IT NEVER HAS TO STOP!!!
Apparently everyone is keeping silent about the various
copyright extensions coming up in Canada and the U.S.
In just a few years yet another bill will be introduced
in the U.S. Congress to extend copyright that has quite
literally been extended from 14 years to 115 years.
Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension?
or
If not stop them, at least publicize them a little?
Suggestions are more than welcome.
I should add that this is probably a losing battle even
if it looks as if we are winning.
Here's why:
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the
allowed buyer of NBC?
If you think programming won't leak over:
Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
Anyone remember Reboot?
I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
I fear that all of them underestimate the power working
to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words
"limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is
really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft."
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26540 English en
1568 French fr
662 German de
524 Finnish fi
472 Dutch nl
410 Portuguese pt
405 Chinese zh
283 Spanish es
235 Italian it
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
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+205
+254
+281
+294
+287
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31,616 up from 31,234 up 382 PG General Automated Count
1,845 up from 1,842 up 3 PG of Australia
699 up from 684 up 15 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 -- 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
504 up from 486 up 18 PG of Canada
======
36,672 up from 36,254 up 418 Grand Total
Feb 21st
31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
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36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
Jan 21st
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
======
35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
Previous month:
35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
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Here is how we ended 2009
day | cnt
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Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
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35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]
9.825 eBooks Per Day
68.773 eBooks Per Week
297.850 eBooks Per Month
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Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
====== ======
32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost
to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
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32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
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32,000 on Calculating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
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It is:
"Forty Years of Song" by Emma Albani, first published in 1911.
Emma Albani (1847-1930) was the first Canadian singer to gain
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Novo Dicionario da Lingua Portuguesa, by Candido Figueiredo
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For those who had heard somewhere you could only get to
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OLDER NEWS. . . .
ONGOING U.S. COPYRIGHT EXTENSIONS
Can anything be done to stop the next U.S. extension?
or
If not stop them, at least publicize them a little?
Suggestions are more than welcome.
I should add that this is probably a losing battle even
if it looks as if we are winning.
Here's why:
When the last Australian Copyright Act was discussed in
Parliament, they passed a resolution stating they would
NOT extend copyrights.
Really.
However, just three years later, under economic warfare
from, shall we just say, outside sources, they crumbled
to the pressure and gave in.
The Canadian Parliament is currently in that position--
and while some tell me they have enough signatures from
those against any extensions, I will bet you lunch that
they, too, crumble before it is over.
I would gladly lose every one of those wagers!!!
Further Information
As you may already know, any time the copyrights in the
characters Winnie the Pooh [1926], or The Mouse [1928],
start coming close to expiration The U.S. Congress will
be sure to start a very quiet frenzy of copyright bills
that are designed to go into effect before anything can
happen to those two copyrights.
As I understand it, Disney(R) made a huge lobby effort,
successful, to create the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act; paid
as a result an additional $200 million for the right to
another 20 years of Winnie the Pooh, and still made the
fabled laughing trip to the bank as a result, since the
effective date of 1978.
As a result I have to imagine their sales of The Mouse,
Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, etc., must have been predicted
to be so terribly large as to devour Avatar's gross.
Given that next bill passed right in the middle of what
must have been the busiest day in Congress for the last
few decades, the impeachment of President Clinton, this
means we should expect something of equal secrecy quite
soon, as the current copyright extension runs out 2018.
Usually they would make an effort to pass the new one a
session or two early, such as in 2016, but given that a
snag or two has hit before, we should probably look out
starting in 2015, though it will be hard to see.
Why?
Even during the election just before the last extension
I went to ask televised press conference questions on a
new U.S. Copyright Act I had heard about, but candidate
responses were uniform. . ."I know nothing."
I would have to expect that even if the big anchors ask
the same question in 2015 they will get that answer.
Or non-answer.
>From what I have heard there is an ever larger movement
to keep everything copyrighted permanently, and to make
all media as pay-per-view as possible, to the points of
making all broadcast television pay-per-view on a first
viewing premise [except public stations].
We are very likely to see a dissolving out boundaries--
cable products showing up on network television and the
opposite direction as well.
What else CAN we expect when Comcast cable has been the
allowed buyer of NBC?
If you think programming won't leak over:
Consider what happened when Disney took over ABC.
Not only did Disney flood ABC with their own programmed
output, but they killed off the best of all cartoons.
Anyone remember Reboot?
I can put you in touch with many copyright experts, and
I fear that all of them underestimate the power working
to make copyright permanent, in spite of the fact words
"limited time" are the U.s. Constitution's description.
However, the U.s. Supreme Court decided that limited is
really unlimited in "Eldred v Ashcroft."
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The earliest USB flash drives were DisgoDizgo, M-Systems
and these were OEMed by IBM, HP, etc. They are particular
in a recognizable fashion because their snapon connectors
resemble the connectors of jigsaw puzzles.
We received two examples of RAM actually labeled "Flash,"
for the H-P 95 pocket DOS machine from 1991, and a sample
of Fairchild bubble memory, as well, from down under.
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Here are the current language totals
for languages with 200 or more eBooks.
Feb. 21st
Grand total for today: 31234
26241 English en
1557 French fr
647 German de
521 Finnish fi
470 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
395 Portuguese pt
275 Spanish es
234 Italian it
Jan. 21st
Grand total for today: 30935
25995 English en
1547 French fr
628 German de
518 Finnish fi
459 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
391 Portuguese pt
274 Spanish es
230 Italian it
Compared to last month:
Grand total
25757 English en
1520 French fr
618 German de
515 Finnish fi
453 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
376 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
220 Italian it
Compared to previous month's:
Grand total for today: 30399
25587 English en
1498 French fr
614 German de
515 Finnish fi
451 Dutch nl
404 Chinese zh
371 Portuguese pt
268 Spanish es
218 Italian it
Previous increases:
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+205
+254
+281
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31,234 up from 30,935 up 299 PG General Automated Count
1,842 up from 1,834 up 8 PG of Australia
684 up from 680 up 4 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
486 up from 462 up 24 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
======
36,254 up from 35,919 up 335
Jan 21st
30,935 up from 30,613 up 322 PG General Automated Count
1,834 up from 1,830 up 4 PG of Australia
680 up from 664 up 16 PG of Europe
2,008 -- 2,008 up 0 PG PrePrints, Reserved [42?]
462 up from 436 up 26 PG of Canada
Posted #400 on October 10
July: 14 (Title 349 to 362)
August: 16 (Titles 363 to 378)
September: 17 (Titles 379 to 395)
October: 13 (Titles 396 to 408)
November: 9 [up to November 21]
December: 19[up to December 21]
======
35,919 up from 35,551 up 368
Previous month:
35,551 up 240 [Not including Canada's illustrations]
35,311 up 235 [Including correcting above estimate by 2]
Note There are perhaps 100 eBooks not listed here
that are already in circulation from Project Gutenberg.
Note PG Canada includes English, French, and Italian.
///
Here is how we ended 2009
day | cnt
----------------+-----
Wed 2009-12-30 | 9
Thu 2009-12-31 | 12
Fri 2010-01-01 | 6
Sat 2010-01-02 | 10
Sun 2010-01-03 | 2
Mon 2010-01-04 | 21
Tue 2010-01-05 | 5
Weekly Total 65
Grand total for today: 30761 from automated in house counter
25866 English en
1531 French fr
625 German de
517 Finnish fi
455 Dutch nl
405 Chinese zh
384 Portuguese pt
270 Spanish es
225 Italian it
etc.
30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks]
====== ======
35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions]
9.825 eBooks Per Day
68.773 eBooks Per Week
297.850 eBooks Per Month
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Here is how we ended 2008
27,616 PG General Automated Count
1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia
554 Project Gutenberg of Europe
225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated]
[202 up to December, no current report]
2,431 PrePrints [Counting the 307 Chinese eBooks +111]
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32,552 Grand Total [Counting those PrePrints]
Here is how we ended 2007
The combined PG projects had produced a total of 26,161 titles.
The most number of books posted...
...in one day was 65 on the 26th December
...in one week was 151 in Week 18 (week ending 9th May)
...in one month was 477 in November
We averaged
338 per month [Over 4,000 for the year]
78 per week
11.13 per day
99 titles were newly REposted to the new filing system, bringing us almost
to the 2,000 mark.
Here is a small selection of project milestones;
TOTAL Original Project Gutenberg eBooks equals about
the number of books in the average U.S. public library
32,500 on 20082121 [Counting the 307 Chinese Preprints]
[And presuming 3 after official count]
32,000 on Calculating
31,500 on 20081021 [not an error, 1,777 PrePrints]
30,000 on 20081021
29,500 on 20080919
29,000 ~~ Calculating
28,500 ~~ Calculating
28,000 ~~ 20080516
27,500 on 20080405
27,000 ~~ 20080229
26,500 on 20080126
26,000 on 20071224
25,000 on 20071012
24,000 on 20070710
23,000 on 20070415
PG-AU
1,700 on 20081010
1,600 on 20080208
1,500 on 20070407
PG Canada
175 on 20080930
100 on 20080325
110 on 20080417
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Many thanks to all who have helped us reach our 39th year!
Michael S. Hart
Founder
Project Gutenberg
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