Re: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (was RE: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL)

Hi :)
+1
I agree.  It's not really any of our business so i waited until after Dan gave some technical help. 
 I left it up to the op to consider about how he wants to handle a potential problem.  
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9148373/The-Hobbit-pub-could-be-saved-after-Gandalf-stepped-in-to-help.html
As the article points out there was no problem with The Hobbit pub until after Hollywood got 
involved.  A pub and live music venue just outside a university is likely to have had quite a few 
customers over the years!  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sat, 17/3/12, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:

From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
Subject: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (was RE: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL)
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 17 March, 2012, 18:08

This is probably not a good place to discuss the copyright status of an existing work.
 
 It seems to me that the only matters to address here are the technical question concerning how to 
get chapters starting with the text pages lined up as the OP wants.  I am surprised that it 
requires a Master Document to accomplish, though.

 - Dennis

MORE THAN YOU MIGHT CARE TO KNOW:

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was copyright in 1899 by L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow (the 
illustrator).  It was published in 1900.  The original is no longer under US copyright (that is, it 
has entered the public domain). You can still purchase the book.  I did that recently, in fact.  I 
first downloaded a free Kindle version, but it didn't have the illustrations.

There are versions of the book that have content still in copyright.  This includes versions that 
have newer illustrations and also books that have added content about the history of the book, etc.

For example, the book I purchased recently has the an Afterword that is copyright 1987.  While that 
notice at the front of the book is accompanied by boilerplate claiming "No part of this book may be 
used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever ... " it can't apply to content that is not subject to 
the 1987 copyright.  (It happens that the scene I was looking for, and the dialog that goes with 
it, "... ignore the man behind the curtain," is specific to the motion picture, so I didn't find 
what I was looking for.)

There is no way of knowing, without further information, what the copyright status of the bilingual 
plaintext is, what the rules are in the jurisdiction where that was produced/is-used, and whether 
or not the illustrations being added are subject to someone's copyright.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 06:52
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL

Hi :)
At a guess "The Wizard of Oz" is copyrighted by some fairly hefty people that wouldn't like to see 
copies of the story floating around unless they got paid for each copy!  I'm not even sure they 
would accept a single "private use" copy.  So, i think this list has to officially assume that you 
were just using that name as an example to give us a rough idea of the sort of size project you are 
dealing with ;)  

Many of us are far more familiar with copyleft agreements that aim  to help people share and spread 
ideas and knowledge rather than to try to contain and cage it to prevent people from learning 
things.

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sat, 17/3/12, Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 17 March, 2012, 13:16

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 18:41 +0700, John Francis Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found a bilingual plain text copy of Wizard of Oz and have set up 
> the individual chapters, right page/left page with chapter headings. I 
> found the illustrations as well and will print them separately in color 
> and just insert them as right pages.
>
> But how do I put all the individual chapters together to make the book?
>
> All the chapters begin with a right hand page. I thought I could just 
> insert each chapter, add a blank left page if need be... although I 
> thought LibreOffice might be smart enough to put a left page betwen two 
> right pages... until I was finished.
>
> If I insert the files into a new file LibreOffice gets stupid and tries 
> to use the style settings from Chapter 1 for the whole book... it looks 
> like.
>
> I tried inserting the chapters as so-called sections, but LibreOffice 
> got stupid again and used its own idea of style to format the thing.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> -- 
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>
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     What you need to do is use Master Documents. The Writer Guide
contains a chapter on this topic. Link to this guide below:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications.
     (FYI: The Writer Guide was written in chapters which were then
combined using Master Documents.)




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