1453craig-ga:
Thank you for your question regarding the book by D. Swiercinsky, PhD,
and its current copyright status.
Current US copyright law grants an individual author of a work
published after 1978, copyright on that work for "life plus 70",
meaning that the author and/or his/her estate retains copyright until
seventy years after their death. Dennis P. Swiercinsky, PhD, therefore
retains full copyright to his book, which was published in 1995 by
World Wisdom Inc. publishers. You can verify this from Dr.
Swiercinsky's personal CV on his website:
Website
http://www.brainsource.com
Curriculum Vitae
http://www.brainsource.com/vita.htm
As you will see from his website, Dr. Swiercinsky retains his
copyright on all materials he has produced, including the text on the
website.
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The definition of "public domain" can be seen here:
http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
Books that do pass into the public domain, can be found at the website
of Eldritch Press, champions of the public domain:
http://www.eldritchpress.org/
To search for any relevant works in the public domain, you can use the
Google 'inurl:' advanced search method:
://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=inurl%3Aeldritchpress.org+%28improving+OR+improve%29+memory
Unfortunately, as you can see, there are no relevant hits. This is
primarily because books in the public domain date from before 1923.
While there are some works from the 1923-1963 period where the author
may have chosen not to renew the copyright after the initial 28 year
period, there do not appear to be any that relate to the topic of
improving memory.
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Works owned by the US government are defined as public domain.
However, when you perform a search of government sites:
://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A.gov+improving+memory
nothing of value comes up.
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It is also possible for an author to make the conscious decision to
dedicate a work to the public domain, as described here:
http://www.primarilypublicdomain.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
One example of this is the information posted to the InfoAnarchy Wiki:
http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/
In a similar way, the Wikipedia has an open-use license covering its contents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
Looking in Wikipedia reveals little of assistance here, though, except for this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonics
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I know from your previous question, answered by my colleague larre-ga,
that you are hoping for resources that are in the public domain. Based
on the searches described above of all of the likely online places
where public domain information can be found, there is very little
information that meets this criteria.
Therefore, I suggest that you consider the following approach. Contact
Dr. Swiercinsky with regards to his out-of-print book. If you have a
good proposal for how you wish to use the material, one that can have
good marketing value for Dr. Swiercinsky, it may be possible that he
will extend you a license to use the material. You can obtain his
contact information from his website:
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http://www.brainsource.com/vita.htm
Dennis P. Swiercinsky, Ph.D.
Clinical Neuropsychologist
1001 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 1100
P. O. Box 1726
Portland, OR 97207-1726
Telephone (503) 220-1660
Facsimile (503) 296-2373
Email dps@brainsource.com
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I hope that this helps!
aht-ga
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