Here's a New York Times article that discusses that beginning yesterday and every January 1 going forward, we'll see books that were previously copyright protected for 95 years enter the public domain. Books published in 1923 have run their course. For Bible aficionados like us, this means that, for example, J. Gresham Machen's New Testament Greek for Beginners is in the public domain. Maybe now that the cost of producing this work is lower, Logos will add it. Do you know of other books published in 1923 that would be good candidates?
A problem here is that copyright protection varies by territory, and without extensive research the actual legal status of individual works can be hard to establish and can sometimes be in doubt.
But maybe at least our American friends could benefit from more "US only" products...
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I think Logos has always worked with US copyright limits but they are generally the highest in the English speaking world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths
Copied from the above NYTimes article:
"Some studies show that extending copyright can actually have a negative impact on the sales and availability of books. A few years ago, Paul J. Heald, a law professor at the University of Illinois, used software that randomly sampled books available on Amazon, and discovered that there were more new editions of books published in the 1910s than from titles published in the 2000s. Publishers often stop printing books that aren’t selling, but still retain the copyright, so no one else can release new editions. Once the books enter the public domain, a wider variety of new editions become available again, filling in a hole in the public and cultural record."
Goodness, if that was ever true, it is at the Faithlife publishing house. It's their bread and butter!
I'm sure a search of archive.org would turn up a lot of 1923 books but here are a few that Logosians would probably be interested in
Budge, EA Wallis, tr. The Egyptian Book of the Dead. 1923Carroll, JM. A History of Texas Baptists. 2 vols. 1923Chesterton, GK. St Francis of Assisi. 1923Davis, William H. Beginner's Grammar of the Greek New Testament. 1923Deissmann, Adolf. The Religion of Jesus and the Faith of Paul. 1923Eiselen, Frederick Carl. The Christian View of the Old Testament. 1923Hippocrates Loeb Hippocrates~vol 1 Ancient Medicine~tr, WHS Jones. 1923Hippocrates Loeb Hippocrates~vol 2 Ancient Medicine~tr, WHS Jones. 1923Machen, J Gresham. Christianity and Liberalism. 1923McNeile, Alan Hugh. New Testament Teaching in the Light of St Paul's. 1923Otto, Rudolf. The Idea of the Holy. 1923Simon, John Smith. John Wesley and the Methodist Societies. 1923Thucydides~Loeb Thucydides. vol 4 History of the Peloponnesian War Books 7-8. tr, Charles F Smith. 1923
This is a great idea for Logos to pursue. Hopefully at a fair price.
Here's a concise article on where to locate the newly released 1923 works. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvq99b/how-to-download-the-books-that-just-entered-the-public-domain
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I'd argue:
Deissmann, Adolf. The Religion of Jesus and the Faith of Paul. 1923
But probably Logos should wait 4 more years for 'Light from the Ancient East', and then double the Deissmann Collection.
Denise: I'd argue: Deissmann, Adolf. The Religion of Jesus and the Faith of Paul. 1923 But probably Logos should wait 4 more years for 'Light from the Ancient East', and then double the Deissmann Collection.
Why wait? https://www.logos.com/products/search?q=author%3adeissmann
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NB.Mick: Denise: I'd argue: Deissmann, Adolf. The Religion of Jesus and the Faith of Paul. 1923 But probably Logos should wait 4 more years for 'Light from the Ancient East', and then double the Deissmann Collection. Why wait? https://www.logos.com/products/search?q=author%3adeissmann
Well, NB. Psint my face red! Thank you!
Actually, it's not well know but the vast majority of works published before 1964 are already in the public domain in the United States. Before that the rule was copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, which was rarely done.