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"Items sold on through the CreateSpace service must follow our content policy and guidelines, detailed below. (...) Public Domain and Other Non-Exclusive Content Some types of content, such as public domain content, may be free to use by anyone, or may be licensed for use by more than one party. We will not accept content that is freely available on the web unless you are the copyright owner of that content. For example, if you received your content from a source that allows you and others to re-distribute it, and the content is freely available on the web, we will not accept it for sale through CreateSpace. We do accept public domain content, however we may request that you provide proof that your submitted material is actually in the public domain and may choose to not sell a public domain title if its content is undifferentiated or barely differentiated from one or more books already available through our service or available through other retail sites. We do not currently accept public domain material for Amazon Video on Demand. "

"Questa mattina ho ripensato al tentativo di Francesco Valotto di introdurre le nozioni di Copyright e Copyleft e in particolare, le licenze Creative Commons, nella discussione su Una domanda, un compito e un'esplorazione - #ltis13. Copyfraud Ci ho ripensato per via del post YouTube: Urheberrechtsmissbrauch vs. Public Domain, ("YouTube: abuso del diritto d'autore v. Dominio Pubblico") dove Martin Steiger spiega il concetto di Copyfraud, cioè di rivendicazione infondata di diritti su un'opera (per un'ottima spiegazione non solo in italiano, ma contestualizzata alla realtà italiana, vedi Copyfraud & Copyfear di Marco Scialdone 28 giugno 2009). Martin Steiger dà poi un esempio concreto di Copyfraud: il software YouTube che reperisce potenziali violazioni di copyright gli ha spedito un avvertimento: "Il tuo video potrebbe includere una canzone di proprietà di una terza parte." (traduzione mia)."

"Geospatial Metadata What are Metadata? A metadata record is a file of information, usually presented as an XML document, which captures the basic characteristics of a data or information resource. It represents the who, what, when, where, why and how of the resource. Geospatial metadata commonly document geographic digital data such as Geographic Information System (GIS) files, geospatial databases, and earth imagery but can also be used to document geospatial resources including data catalogs, mapping applications, data models and related websites. Metadata records include core library catalog elements such as Title, Abstract, and Publication Data; geographic elements such as Geographic Extent and Projection Information; and database elements such as Attribute Label Definitions and Attribute Domain Values."

"By Matthew Sparkes, Deputy Head of Technology 12:03PM BST 06 Aug 2014 Wikimedia, the US-based organisation behind Wikipedia, has refused a photographer's repeated requests to remove one of his images which is used online without his permission, claiming that because a monkey pressed the shutter button it should own the copyright. British nature photographer David Slater was in Indonesia in 2011 attempting to get the perfect image of a crested black macaque when one of the animals came up to investigate his equipment, hijacked a camera and took hundreds of selfies. "