Just curious to know the copyright status of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Those URLs say that the first one was published in 1768 !!!
And its 2010 edition will be the last in print
-Sudhanwa
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Sudhanwa
You may know, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica is public domain...
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote:
Just curious to know the copyright status of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Every single edition of Britannica published BEFORE 1942 is public domain.
All the others expire when they get their 70th anniversary of publication,
which in the 2010 case will be 2080 (very close) ;) ;)
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I believe it already is in the public domain. Back go 2009, when I was
looking up sources for Transport in India, there was a template
stating that the article incorporated text from Encyclopedia
Britanica, which is PD. Not to be confused with the CIA Factbook
template.
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Regards,
Srikanth
Probably was one of the templates here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1911_Britannica_templates
As we said, all articles from 1911 edition of Britannica is PD.
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http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-never-ending-story-as-print-editions-bite-the-dust/story-fn5h1vlf-1226299200770
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/03/britannica-no-more-wikipedia-wins
Journalists already concluded it is due to Wikipedia
