Thanks for asking, James. Project Gutenberg allows eBooks to be made up of items from multiple sources. They all must be confirmed via the copyright clearance site (https://copy.pglaf.org) as being free of any US copyright. So, something from Wikicommons or similar is only ok if it's submitted to the clearance site with enough evidence to know. Lots of Wiki stuff is under some sort of creative commons license or similar. This isn't suitable, because it's still copyrighted: the outcome would be a public domain book that has some copyrighted elements, which confuses and may limit the key Project Gutenberg principle of unlimited free redistribution. In your situation, it looks like there might be a pre-1924 cover that could be cleared under Rule 1 via the portal. Just submit the image, and a screen capture (not an external link - those can change!) of the metadata. Write back if you need more info. You can also email the production team, via pgww@ Best, Greg On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 03:40:59PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
I'm transcribing a book Harivamsha which has a PDF of the pages at archive.org but no book cover. I know I don't need to provide a cover, but I'd like to have one. While there is no book cover, there is some good art in the public domain inspired by events in the book:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Harivamsa
I was thinking of taking one of these images and putting the title and author on it using The GIMP and making that my e-book cover image. Is there any PG policy on this?
James Simmons