Hi, I'm compiling a clean jokes book to be included in free book archives. I was just wondering if jokes are copyrighted. Not comedian-specific jokes - jokes such as, Why did the chicken cross the road? I found all jokes on different webpages. Because the ebook is free, aren't I doing the same as the webpages? Season BubbleGirl: Writer, poet, Pocket PC enthusiast bubblegirl@bubblegirl.net www.bubblegirl.net Did you know ROM of PC POWERPLAY moved? He's now an AUSSIE PLAYING UP at www.bubblegirl.net/playingup.php -----Original Message----- From: "Gutenberg9443@aol.com"<Gutenberg9443@aol.com> Sent: 02/01/2005 1:53:48 AM To: "gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org"<gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] date-sensitive info about ebook purchase In a message dated 1/30/2005 4:46:21 PM Mountain Standard Time, gbnewby@pglaf.org writes: Evidently, the mainstream publishers are not putting their mainstream works onto the Fictionwise site - maybe they're elsewhere. My strong suspicion is that many the works on the Fictionwise site are those that are owned by authors, not publishers. So, right now, this device doesn't replace bn.com or whatever for my reading of contemporary works. There is a lot of new stuff at FictionWise. It's in RB format and can be dumped straight into the ebook. Probably most of the stuff on the sites is older and the author has gotten copyright revision, but more and more publishers are getting the idea and putting new works up. For example, THE DA VINCI CODE went up on FictionWise about the same time it was released in hardback. Its success in eformat has certainly caught the eyes of other mainstream publishers. It's a good beginning, but it IS a beginning. Anne