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Bring 'water cooler conversations' into public domain

With so many people realising the power of social media outside of the enterprise in their personal lives, we mustn't... Read more

9 June, 2011
<endeca_term>Public Domain</endeca_term> Treasures - Harvest The Untapped Goldmine Of Public Domain Content 1.0

Public Domain Treasures - Harvest The Untapped Goldmine Of Public Domain Content 1.0

...A Word!This is your golden opportunity to harness the power of Public Domain content to build yourself A nice, line of hot selling products... Read more

4 March, 2011
The Bilbocks - <endeca_term>Public Domain</endeca_term> Storytelling 1.00

The Bilbocks - Public Domain Storytelling 1.00

...rock band, and here is the iPhone app of our first album: "Public Domain Storytelling". We'd like to share this album with you as... Read more

23 August, 2010

Open data to get public-sector gatekeepers

...that will advise departments on what data they should release into the public domain, and how they should do it Read more

21 March, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

Thought your tweets were private? Not so, says PCC

Posts made on Twitter are in the public domain, according to the Press Complaints Commission The Press Complaints Commission (PCC... Read more

9 February, 2011 by Shelley Portet
Amazon Kindle DX (graphite, global 3G wireless)

Amazon Kindle DX (graphite, global 3G wireless)

...fact that Amazon offers its own library of almost 2 million free, public-domain titles (mostly pre-1923, out-of-copyright titles), including a large... Read more

4 August, 2010 by David Carnoy & John P Falcone

Photos: Google's ebook store comes to the UK - on web, iOS and Android

...On the Origin of Species - one of the two million-plus free, public domain titles available through the store. The store's ebooks can be... Read more

7 October, 2011 by Nick Heath
ImageJ 1.46o

ImageJ 1.46o

ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh... Read more

18 May, 2012

ICO condemns Motorman data publication

...the ICO said in a statement on Tuesday. "Putting these into the public domain in this way is a serious violation of many people's... Read more

10 April, 2012
Air Navigation Pro 5.0.0

Air Navigation Pro 5.0.0

...charts and ICAO maps for most European countries- VFR Chars New Zealand- Public domain charts for Latin american countries- Contains airspaces information (A to F... Read more

24 March, 2012
Real Studio 2011.4.3.0

Real Studio 2011.4.3.0

...Real Studio's built-in Real SQL Database, based on the SQLite public domain database engine. Connect to external multi-user database engines using Real... Read more

6 March, 2012
MIME creator: Developers face patent trap

MIME creator: Developers face patent trap

Mimecast chief scientist Nathaniel Borenstein says the US patent system is broken, putting a chilling effect on developers who struggle to decide whether to spend money on lawyers to defend their innovations Read more

6 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Internet time guide scotched by astrology firm

...the information and/or date taken from the works is in the 'public domain'," said the court documents. Astrolabe sent a takedown notice regarding tz... Read more

7 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google brings Books service to the UK

...Hachette, Random House and Penguin, as well as more than two million public domain e-books for free. "Just as in the US, we've... Read more

7 October, 2011

Benioff: Companies will not overstep social mark

...to gather information on KLM customers. KLM used information gleaned from the public domain to populate databases with personal information about customers, for marketing and... Read more

16 September, 2011

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