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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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.)