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...onse from the public to this study was extraordinary. We received over 850 written comments, most of which were filed by individuals who have concerns... ...aordinary. We received over 850 written comments, most of which were filed by individuals who have concerns about the use of orphan works. As you know... ... g the first year of the 109th Congress. and would suggest that soliciting written comments from interested parties would be an appropriate starting p... ...rks whose owners cannot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright T... ... in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Hazra and Chris Stillabower, legal interns in the Office of Policy and International... ... a search of ASCAP’s repertory that failed to return positive results for songs of interest to Save the Music). 54 See id. 55 See, e.g., Kline (1... ... of some of the stuff that we are holding and protecting.”) (statement of Christine Sundt, University of Oregon, College Art Association, Visual Res... ...Robert Grossman* Jacqueline Freedman* Kevin Kelly Emmie Hsu* David Stein* Suzanne Duranceau* OW0712-Scott OW0713-Sharp OW0714-Thomas ... ...as OW0715-Grossman OW0716-Freedman OW0717-Kelly OW0719-Hsu OW0720-Stein OW0721-Duranceau Page 28 of 28 U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Wor...

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...onse from the public to this study was extraordinary. We received over 850 written comments, most of which were filed by individuals who have concerns... ...aordinary. We received over 850 written comments, most of which were filed by individuals who have concerns about the use of orphan works. As you know... ... g the first year of the 109th Congress. and would suggest that soliciting written comments from interested parties would be an appropriate starting p... ...rks whose owners cannot be located. I write to support such an undertaking by your office. As established by Section 104 of the Sonny Bono Copyright T... ... in the early stages of this project. Todd Schnitzer, Sharmili Hazra and Chris Stillabower, legal interns in the Office of Policy and International... ... a search of ASCAP’s repertory that failed to return positive results for songs of interest to Save the Music). 54 See id. 55 See, e.g., Kline (1... ... of some of the stuff that we are holding and protecting.”) (statement of Christine Sundt, University of Oregon, College Art Association, Visual Res... ...Robert Grossman* Jacqueline Freedman* Kevin Kelly Emmie Hsu* David Stein* Suzanne Duranceau* OW0712-Scott OW0713-Sharp OW0714-Thomas ... ...as OW0715-Grossman OW0716-Freedman OW0717-Kelly OW0719-Hsu OW0720-Stein OW0721-Duranceau Page 28 of 28 U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Wor...

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...nformation Technology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the ... ...within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue by Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart,... ...nformation Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In th... ...of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks—the most recen... ...l other species. Hummingbirds, songbirds, and parrots all produce learned songs. The honeybee finds food, heads back to the hive, then dances on the... ... —History hobbyist Gavin Menzies (1937–) China‘s InfoTech Siblings After Christ‘s ministry, Western Civilization slid into the shadows of what some ... ...nd. Parchment challenges Egypt’s papyrus More than a century before Christ, King Eumenes II of Pergamum built a library to compete with Egypt‘... .... New York: Dutton, 1961. Morgan, Elaine. The Aquatic Ape. New York: Stein and Day, 1982. Orr, James McConnell. Libraries as Communication Sy...

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...erate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to read. -- 9. Largest Land Empire Ever-Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less t...

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...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the ... ...wer within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart... ...nformation Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In th... ... the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks—the most recen... ...other species. Hummingbirds, songbirds, and parrots all produce learned songs. The honeybee finds food, heads back to the hive, then dances on the... ...History hobbyist Gavin Menzies (1937–) China‘s InfoTech Siblings After Christ‘s ministry, Western Civilization slid into the shadows of what some ... ...hip. Parchment challenges Egypt’s papyrus More than a century before Christ, King Eumenes II of Pergamum built a library to compete with Egypt‘... ... New York: Dutton, 1961. Morgan, Elaine. The Aquatic Ape. New York: Stein and Day, 1982. Orr, James McConnell. Libraries as Communication Sy...

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... across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the student government and relies on revenue generated by local and national ad sales, subscriptions, and voluntary contributions for use of its website. Both Sawyer Library and the College Archives maintain more than a century's worth of publicly accessible, bound volumes of the...

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...dles and colored fire. The procession, which start- ed at 7,35, was headed by tiie senior drag, containing Clarey and Murphy, the senior orators, Hin-... ...de reached President Hoji- kina' housn on the return marol). when a charge by the sophomores upset things. Most of the trans- [jaroncios informed 1900... ...e contrary, ours should be a re- ligion of joy. The secontl picture is the Chris- tian showing forbearance to his fellowmen. This is taken from the fi... ...ance. then, is our second picture. The third and last picture shows us the Christian looking into his own heart. This is taken from the sixth verse of... ...e Rocky Road to Dublin" E. R. Ephraim Mandolin Club 2 Solo—"I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby" Clay Selwyn Reed Pevear '07 o "Sounds from the Orient'" H. ... ...Mrs. Howes sang two solos in a very pleasing style, the Hindoo and Morning songs. The program follows: Prelnde and Fngiie in A minor J. S. Bach FantHH... ...f a Point," and two volumes entitled " The His- tory of Modern Missions, " written- by Robert Speer. P. J. Dempsey DEA..ER IN Fine Qroceriee, Table De... ...he Ar- thurian Legend," is an excellent piece of art oritioism and is well written. The story entitled "The Goal " has some good descriptive touches b... ... o, Waugh rg, Horr rt. Burton re, Banks qb, Park (Capt ) Ihb, Stimson rhb. Stein fb. WILLIAMS re, D. Brown, rt, Bargfrede, rg. Beid, c, Morse, Ig, Har...

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...ok. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at ... ... winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan Zittrain. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immed... ...he U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publishers. The author has made an online ver... ...am the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspired counter... ...t such innovative inertia was placed into a theoretical framework by Clayton Christensen in his pioneering book The In- novator’s Dilemma. 24 Christen... ...tions are not in the path of what the company is already doing well. Indeed, Christensen found that the innovations which market leaders were the wors... ...ome measure of adoption—like Apple iTunes’s FairPlay, which allows purchased songs to exist on only five registered devices at once 23 —are either read... ...DF93BA15757C0A9659C8B63; Peter Cohen, iTunes Music Store Launches with 200K Songs, MW, Apr. 28, 2003, http://www.macworld.com/ news/2003/04/28/... ...le at http://faculty .haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/thicket.pdf. 69. In Mazer v. Stein, 347 U.S. 201, 217 (1954), a distinction was made between copyright...

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...The Nibelungenlied Translated by Daniel B. Shumway A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication T... ...ersity. 3 The Nibelungenlied The Nibelungenlied Author Unknown Originally written in Middle High German (M.H.G.), sometime around 1200 A.D., although... ...e High German (M.H.G.), sometime around 1200 A.D., although this dating is by no means certain. The text of this edition is based on that published as... ...teenth century, now in the ducal library of Donauesehingen. It is the best written of all the MSS., and has been edited by Zarncke. 6 The Nibelungenl... ...er preserved in this remote island because of the peaceful introduction of Christianity, than on the Continent, where the Church was more antagonistic... ...the thirteenth century, but is probably a copy of an older manuscript. The songs it contains were writ- ten at various times, the oldest probably in t... ...liest manuscript. Most of them, however, belong to the Viking period, when Christianity was already beginning to influence the Norwegians, that is, be... ...h prose, and have the form of dialogues. Though the legends on which these songs are based were brought from Norway, most of them were probably compos... ...erpretation of “Isen” as ‘ice’ finds corroboration in Otfrid’s form “isine steina” (‘ice stones’, i.e. crystals) I, 1. 70. Isenstein would then mean I...

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... shining in the undiminished majesty and beauty of their ideal life, although the marble that embodies them is yellow with time, and perhaps corroded by the damp earth in which they lay buried for centuries. Here, likewise, is seen a symbol (as apt at this moment as it was two thousand years ago) of the Human Soul, with its choice of Innocence or Evil close at hand, in the...

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...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne Complete Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic ... ...Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...fices, piled rudely up with ancient brick and stone, and over the domes of Chris- tian churches, built on the old pavements of heathen temples, and su... ... sky, and those blue distant mountains, and at the ruins, Etruscan, Roman, Christian, venerable with a threefold antiquity, and at the company of worl... ...at black cross in the centre of the Coliseum sat a party singing scraps of songs, with much laughter and merriment between the stanzas. It was a stran... ...ible thing, Miriam,” said Hilda, growing paler than before. “Do you see it written in my face, or painted in my eyes?” inquired Miriam, her trouble se... ...he frescos were now very ancient. They had been rubbed and scrubbed by old Stein and many a predecessor, and had been defaced in one spot, and retouch... ...en- erable distance, the heralds gave up the lineage in despair. But where written record left the genealogy of Monte Beni, tradition took it up, and ...

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...PASSOS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...cco and ci- gar butts and stained bits of paper. “What’s your name? Mahn’s Chrisfield. Folks all call me Chris.” “Mine’s Andrews, John Andrews.” “Ma d... ...ace, as a man might stare at a piece of furniture. “Ain’t this some film?” Chrisfield turned to him with a smile that drove his anger away in a pleasa... ...h that—what d’they call it?—menegitis.” “Was that what was the matter with Stein?” “The corporal won’t say.” “Ole Corp. looks sort o’ sick himself,” s... ...niel’s buddy had had his chest split in half by a piece of shell. And he’d written home he’d been made a corporal. What was he going to do when letter... ... of horns, braying of don- keys, and the throaty voices of men singing the songs of deso- late roads. He would look up, and before him he would see, a... ...Saint Sulpice,” said the woman in a surprised tone. Saint Sulpice. Manon’s songs came to his head, and the sentimental melancholy of eighteenth centur... ...es in the presence of their stern Catonian fa- thers, and its billets doux written at little gilt tables, and its coaches lumbering in covered with mu...

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC... .............. ........................250 BOOKIIRUNEXXVWAINAMOINEN SWEDDING-SONGS......................................................................... .................................................379 RUNEXLIWAINAMOINEN SHARP-SONGS......................................................................... ...The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 To Dr. J.D. Buck, An Encou... ...lore. Tacitus, writing in the very beginning of the second century of the Christian era, mentions the Fenni, as he calls them, in the 46th chap ter ... ...ly, and effect all changes of grammar by suffixes attached to the original stein. Grimin has shown that both Gothic and Icelandic present traces of Fi... ...New Songs and Lays of the Finnish Nation). In another work edited in 1832, written in Swedish, entitled: Om Finnarues Magiska Medicin (On the Magic Me... ... genuineness and antiquity of the Kalevala, Barna adduces a Hungarian book written by a certain Peter Bornemissza, in 1578, entitled ordogi Kisertetek... ...believing that the story of Mariatta, recited in the 50th Rune, is an ante Chris tian legend. An additional proof of the originality and independent ...

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...Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...Petersburg, used only by the elite. All her invitations without exception, written in French, and delivered by a scarlet-liveried footman that morn- i... ...simple, and modest expression. Anna Pavlovna turned toward him and, with a Christian mildness that expressed forgiveness of his indiscretion, nodded a... ... Nicho- las who was copying out some verses for her, the first he had ever written. Boris and Natasha were at the other window and ceased talking when... ...that the welfare of his soul is at stake. Ah, it is awful: the duties of a Christian...” A door of one of the inner rooms opened and one of the prince... ...eived a double ration of vodka. The campfires crackled and the sol- diers’ songs resounded even more merrily than on the previous night. Denisov celeb... ...now that this maiden was nothing else than a representation of the Song of Songs. And looking at those drawings I dreamed I felt that I was doing wron... ... he has preferred to surround himself with my enemies, and with whom? With Steins, Armfeldts, Bennigsens, and Wintzingerodes! Stein, a traitor expelle...

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...ruth and Fiction Relating to My Life Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated by John Oxenford Introduction by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and F... ...on by Thomas Carlyle Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. John Oxenford, with an introduction b... ...deed serve as the fullest, if perhaps not the purest, impress of it; being written with due fore- thought, at various times, during a period of no les... ...the and died single. Goethe’s return to Frankfort is marked by a number of songs, of which the “Wanderer’s Sturmlied” is the most re- markable. He had... ...ethe immediately afterwards began his Werther. Goethe tells us that it was written in four weeks. In October it spread over the whole of Germany. It w... ...t the influ- ence of a noble-hearted woman. This he found in Charlotte von Stein, a lady of the court, wife of the master of the horse. The close of 1... ...various trifles, and to regale us with all sorts of nice morsels. But, one Christmas evening, she crowned all her kind deeds by having a puppet-show e... ...of imitation, and the more so, as some- thing similar was commended by the Christian doctrine of patience. While on the subject of these family diseas... ...all hearts. I rejoiced with my father in our conquests, readily copied the songs of triumph, and almost more willingly the lampoons directed against t...