Custom covers for a book that has no original cover available?
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
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
I seem to remember that you start accepting clearance requests a bit ahead of time -- end-of-year 2019 look-ahead for "2020" [1924] items? When can we start submitting clearance requests for "2020" [1924] items -- realizing that these don't actually "clear" until 2020? Thanks, jimad
I would say (Greg to confirm/deny) that it's OK to submit such clearances, but perhaps wait until November. Maybe mention in one of the notes-to-clearance-team fields that the finished ebook won't be submitted to PG until Jan/2020. DPCanada has a similar general policy. DPCanada/Fadedpage (https://www.fadedpage.com/) should also be checked, just in case the book is already there. (DPC follows Canadian copyright law, not American.) DPC has a copyright clearances spreadsheet (similar to David Price's In-progress list) at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lU5VeCLMIPhkqqGc-g0iE7Ld5EU5b-sI 7DcoKiUwZPo/pub?output=html Green entries are projects that have been posted to Fadedpage; black ones are active DPC projects. (Be patient--the sheet can take a bit of time to load and respond.) Al -----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Adcock Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2019 5:04 PM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion; gbnewby@pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] End-of-year [Pre]-clearance I seem to remember that you start accepting clearance requests a bit ahead of time -- end-of-year 2019 look-ahead for "2020" [1924] items? When can we start submitting clearance requests for "2020" [1924] items -- realizing that these don't actually "clear" until 2020? Thanks, jimad
Thank you! ________________________________ From: gutvol-d <gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org> on behalf of Al Haines <ajhaines@shaw.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:26 AM To: 'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion' <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>; gbnewby@pglaf.org <gbnewby@pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] End-of-year [Pre]-clearance I would say (Greg to confirm/deny) that it's OK to submit such clearances, but perhaps wait until November. Maybe mention in one of the notes-to-clearance-team fields that the finished ebook won't be submitted to PG until Jan/2020. DPCanada has a similar general policy. DPCanada/Fadedpage (https://www.fadedpage.com/<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fadedpage.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5c6b680390d8490ec14f08d74a836fbb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637059800681271384&sdata=NvJgdeHUKwM0RXBM7q7SOK71hdCpEuTscxUH%2BcnQ%2F0E%3D&reserved=0>) should also be checked, just in case the book is already there. (DPC follows Canadian copyright law, not American.) DPC has a copyright clearances spreadsheet (similar to David Price's In-progress list) at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lU5VeCLMIPhkqqGc-g0iE7Ld5EU5b-sI7DcoKiUwZPo/pub?output=html<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1lU5VeCLMIPhkqqGc-g0iE7Ld5EU5b-sI7DcoKiUwZPo%2Fpub%3Foutput%3Dhtml&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5c6b680390d8490ec14f08d74a836fbb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637059800681281395&sdata=uiXikVs5cCyOZ9A2ka6wINucyk%2BkFhupLOtPJ3Q8jpc%3D&reserved=0> Green entries are projects that have been posted to Fadedpage; black ones are active DPC projects. (Be patient--the sheet can take a bit of time to load and respond.) Al -----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Adcock Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2019 5:04 PM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion; gbnewby@pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] End-of-year [Pre]-clearance I seem to remember that you start accepting clearance requests a bit ahead of time -- end-of-year 2019 look-ahead for "2020" [1924] items? When can we start submitting clearance requests for "2020" [1924] items -- realizing that these don't actually "clear" until 2020? Thanks, jimad
Hi, James. You can submit clearances up to 2 years early. Our copyright system at https://copy.pglaf.org handles it: you can get an "ok" key, but cannot upload until the year it is eligible. I thought this was documented somewhere, but did not see it just now. So, there is no reason to wait for a clearance key, for something that will be eligible in January. Thanks! - Greg On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 05:44:40PM +0000, James Adcock wrote:
Thank you!
________________________________ From: gutvol-d <gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org> on behalf of Al Haines <ajhaines@shaw.ca> Sent: Sunday, October 6, 2019 10:26 AM To: 'Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion' <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>; gbnewby@pglaf.org <gbnewby@pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] End-of-year [Pre]-clearance
I would say (Greg to confirm/deny) that it's OK to submit such clearances, but perhaps wait until November. Maybe mention in one of the notes-to-clearance-team fields that the finished ebook won't be submitted to PG until Jan/2020.
DPCanada has a similar general policy.
DPCanada/Fadedpage (https://www.fadedpage.com/<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fadedpage.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C5c6b680390d8490ec14f08d74a836fbb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637059800681271384&sdata=NvJgdeHUKwM0RXBM7q7SOK71hdCpEuTscxUH%2BcnQ%2F0E%3D&reserved=0>) should also be checked, just in case the book is already there. (DPC follows Canadian copyright law, not American.) DPC has a copyright clearances spreadsheet (similar to David Price's In-progress list) at:
Green entries are projects that have been posted to Fadedpage; black ones are active DPC projects. (Be patient--the sheet can take a bit of time to load and respond.)
Al
-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Adcock Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2019 5:04 PM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion; gbnewby@pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] End-of-year [Pre]-clearance
I seem to remember that you start accepting clearance requests a bit ahead of time -- end-of-year 2019 look-ahead for "2020" [1924] items?
When can we start submitting clearance requests for "2020" [1924] items -- realizing that these don't actually "clear" until 2020?
Thanks, jimad
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