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[edit] New requests
- A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America by Jubal Anderson Early
- Transcription project: Index:A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence in the Confederate States of America.djvu John Vandenberg (chat) 03:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- Giphantie by Author:Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche, published in English in 1761
- The works of Author:Charles Spurgeon
- The Artless Artist by Don Landry
- Every Man in His Humour, 1598 comedy play by Ben Jonson (Full text at Project Gutenberg)
- Translations of T.S. Eliot's French poems Le Directeur, Mélange Adultère de Tout, Lune de Miel, and Dans le Restaurant. The French text can be found at fr:T. S. Eliot.
- Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich (c.1393) (wikipedia articles, available at [1])
- Thoughts are Things by Printice Mulford
- She Would Be a Soldier, w:Mordecai Manuel Noah's most successful play, it would be desirable to do an OCR from Google Books (this appears to be the only existence of the text online)
- Septuagint (see w:Septuagint, very historically important ancient Greek Bible translation, with significant differences from the common text), see 1851 Brenton translation into English.
- Maryland Toleration Act, see wikipedia article (1649), see i.e. [The Avalon Project.
- Bible, English, King James, Documentary Hypothesis, Redaction Sources, Book of Generations (contains the Generations Stories from Genesis)
- Comment This would just be some extracts from the complete text of Genesis, which is already on Wikisource.--Poetlister 19:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex, Owen Chase (published 1821)
- The Aquatic (Naiad) Stage of the British Dragonflies (Paraneuroptera) by Author:William John Lucas, The Ray Society, London 1930 (scans can be found at commons:Category:Lucas - Naiad Stage of Dragonflies)
- The Miracle Worker by William Gibson(1975 Bantam edition of The Miracle Worker, distributed by AOP ,if possible)
- The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during His First Voyage, 1492-93) (published in English in 1893)
- Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus
- Report on the First Voyage Around the World (it:Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, 1524)
- International Court of Justice Statutes [2]
- Codev2 by Lawrence Lessig, under a CC-by-SA; Full text at Official website or Official Wiki
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling; (Wikipedia) (1749 novel) by Henry Fielding; Full text at Project Gutenberg
- The Peloponnesian War by w:Thucydidies. Public domain tanslation can be found here: [3]. Used extensively as reference for w:Pericles article which is currently going through featured article nomination.
- R.U.R. by Karel Capek (English translation) - 1920 Czech original has been cleared by Gutenberg; 1923-published (though performed onstage in 1922) standard English version by Paul Selver (Czech translator) and w:Nigel Playfair (theatre manager), with substantial changes in plot, does not appear in a superficial online copyright renewal search, and is published by "Dover Thrift Editions", a public domain book imprint. There could possibly be issues with automatic renewal because Playfair was a British citizen. Online text-PDF of 1923 English translation. We apparently once had a page at R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots); I'm not sure what its content was and why exactly it was deleted.
- The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
- Hedi Bouraoui by George Eliot
- Return To Thyna by George Eliot
- w:Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by w:Bede, in modern English! (apparently being worked on at Ecclesiastical History of the English People)
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Records of Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou
- The Journey of William of Rubruck
- The Memoris Of Babur by Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur
- Rats Saw God
- Arthashastra by Koutilya, also known as Chanakya or Vishnuguptha, who was the prime minister at the court of Chandraguptha Maurya, king of the Maurya dynasty of ancient India, around 4th century BCE.
- Treaty of San Stefano
- The War in Nicaragua by William Walker (New York: S.H. Goetzel, 1860)
- La Marseillaise (fr:La Marseillaise, w:La Marseillaise)
- Tristram Shandy (by Laurence Sterne) The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman available at Project Gutenberg
- A Book of Five Rings (by Miyamoto Musashi, 1645)
- The Tale of Genji (w)
- The History and Practice of Aerostation by Tiberius Cavallo (London, 1785)
- The Code of the Bushido (also known as The Code of the Samurai)
- January 31 Bush-Blair memo
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
- Works by Clark Ashton Smith,
- The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, published 1874 by Author:Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919), and any other material (poems, etc.) he wrote - See also w:Benjamin_Paul_Blood
- Nicholas Ferrar (1592-1637) - Ferrar's pamphlet Sir Thomas Smith's Misgovernance of the Virginia Company published by the Roxborough Club in 1990.
- The disorder Dyslexia unless it has already been done in which case ignore
- Wildlife
- Anarcho-syndicalism from Rudolph Rocker
- Works and Letters by Sigmund Freud
- Works by John Ruskin,
- Works by Mohandas K. Gandhi
- Census results from around the world
- In Defence of Hinduism, by Swami Vivekananda
- The Chuang-tzu, by Chuang-tzu (Daoist philosophical text)
- The Statesman by Sir Henry Taylor
- Peace of Augsburg, 1555 treaty
- Peace of Westphalia, 1648 treaty (refers to the pair of treaties, the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück),
- William Morris News from nowhere
- Longinus' On The Sublime
- Pausanias' Description of Greece 2 AD English Translation date unknown
- Herman Melville's Clarel
- Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (translated by Vladimir Nabakov)
- John Dickenson. Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
- Charles I - His Speech from the Scaffold -- http://anglicanhistory.org/charles/charles1.html
- Nibelungenlied (w)
- Geneva Bible-http://bible.christiansunite.com/genindex.shtml
- Missing Robert E. Howard 'Conan' works published in Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s - all are in the public domain now
- The Postage Stamps of the United States, by John N. Luff, published New York : Scott Stamp & Coin Co. Ltd., c1902, c1897. 417 pages
- Philately in a nutshell, by J.H. Smyth, L. of Congress number 83196129, Sydney, 1911, 110 pages
- The Primary Chronicles (Kievan Rus)
- Works by Victor Hugo including Cromwell w and The Rhine w
- The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, published 1874 by Author:Benjamin Paul Blood (1832-1919), and any other material (poems, etc.) he wrote - See also w:Benjamin Paul Blood
- Swish of the Kris - The Story of the Moros by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com
- Jungle Patrol - The Story of the Philippine Constabulary by Vic Hurley - Complete Text at bakbakan.com
- Encyclopédie, Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (that is, "Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts" w) (in French on the French Wikisource) (English translation)
- John J. Pershing speechs
- Additional works by Mahadev Desai
- Walter Lippmann's Public Opinion ([4] [5] [6])
- A Night in a Moorish Harem (completing, Sherurcij (talk) (CRIMINALS ARE MADE, NOT BORN) 22:07, 12 November 2006 (UTC))
- Works of Napoleon I (including his essays, dispatches, bulletins, works of fiction, essays, proclamations,memoirs and conversations and dictations at St.Helena)
- Works of Mao Zedong (political speeches/essays that qualify for Template:PD-CN)
- Roman de la Rose, translated from French (Wikipedia)
- The Romaunt of the Rose, in Middle English (Wikipedia)
- The Romance of the Rose, Modern English translation of The Romaunt of the Rose
- The Clansman, available here, historically relevant text that spawned the film w:The Birth of a Nation.
- The Mechanical Theory of Heat – with its Applications to the Steam Engine and to Physical Properties of Bodies by Clausius, 1865 to 1867 depending on whom you ask. PD due to age; if you ever get around to do it, please seed Wikipedia with appropriate links, we appreciate it. No existing online version found, only an excerpt, on a lifestyle-related new-age thing that I don't really trust.
- Who did it? a novel. by Robert Nash Ogden see Publishers Weekly December 17, 1887 p 941, worldcat,and bio online Edition Who did it? a novel--Wright American Fiction Project Indiana University Digital Library Program
- Cheskian anthology - Anthology of Czech poetry, translated and edited in year 1832 by w:Sir John Bowring
- The Shaving of Shagpat George Meridith 1898
- Transcription project: Index:The Shaving of Shagpat.djvu
- Text: Project Gutenberg
[edit] Governmental and organizational works
- Project Longshot, a research essay from NASA and US Naval Academy.
- US government documents regarding the Vela Incident.
- Urantia Foundation v. Michael Foundation, interesting copyright case [7]
[edit] Copyrighted and restricted by copyright holder
- A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947 play by Tennessee Williams
- AOLTOS: The AOL Terms of Service Copyright apears to be held by AOL LLC [8]
- Lolita, 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores, 2004 novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Natural Economic Order, 1930 book by Silvio Gesell [9]
- Buttercup's Baby, "sample chapter" of S. Morgenstern's sequal to The Princess Bride
- Karl Kerenyi's Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life 1976
- Security Analysis, 1934 book by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
- The Great Gatsby, 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald (available at Wikilivres: The Great Gatsby)
- Atlas Shrugged, 1957 novel by Ayn Rand
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink, written in 1935
- Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood (1977)
- The Sound of Music (1959 Broadway musical, 1961 London production, 1965 film)
- Lord of the Flies, 1954 novel by William Golding
- The Godfather, 1969 novel by Mario Puzo
- Noises Off, 1982 play by Michael Frayn
- Casino Royale, 1953 novel by Ian Fleming
- Danny, the Champion of the World (first published in 1975)
- Scripts of the Star Wars movies (created in 1970s)
- The Harry Potter series (first published in 1997)
- The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien - Copyrighted up to 2044
- The Outsider by Albert Camus (copyrighted up to 2030)
- The Catcher in the Rye, 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger
- Dr. Josef Mengele - I don't know what he wrote, but if any of it was in connection with his employment with the Nazi Party thatt would not be copyright protected.
- The Hacker Crackdown, 1992 book by Bruce Sterling (available at Wikilivres: The Hacker Crackdown)
- Exploration, Drilling and Production of Oil and Natural Gas by Richard S Kraus
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (published in 1943, Wikipedia has links to full text online) (available at Wikilivres: The Little Prince)
- Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
- Private works of Mao Zedong do not qualify for {{PD-CN}} but are copyrighted in China up to 2026.
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, Copyrighted in the United States until 2033
[edit] Governmental and organizational works
See also w:Official text copyright for a list of official text in the public domain or under copyright.
- United Nations works are in the public domain if qualified for {{PD-UN}}. Otherwise, they may be copyrighted.
- Canadian legislation is under Crown Copyright pursuant to Section 12 of the Copyright Act for 50 years since the first publication. The Reproduction of Federal Law Order applies to allow more recent works to be reproduced.
- Hong Kong Laws are under governmental copyright and the permission there is subject to withdrawal at any time should it ever happen, thus not compatible with GFDL. They are copyrighted for 50 years since publication in the Gazette of the Hong Kong Government pursuant to Article 183 of the Copyright Ordinance.
- Laws of Singapore are under governmental copyright for 70 years since their publications pursuant to Section 197 of the Copyright Act.
- For Judicial Yuan Interpretations of the Republic of China based in Taiwan after 1949, English translations at http://www.judicial.gov.tw/constitutionalcourt/en/P03_0001.asp and http://nwjirs.judicial.gov.tw/eng/FINT/FINTQRY01.asp are translated by governmentally contracted outsiders with translators' names noted, so these translations there are copyrighted. Please do not copy these goernmentally contracted private translations here, but Wikisource users may make their own translations to be released under GFDL or similar free-use licenses.
- United Kingdom Legislation is under Crown Copyright whose waiver is considered not compatible with GFDL. Crown copyright expires 50 years after publication and publication pass into the public domain.
[edit] Works in the public domain in source countries but copyrighted in the USA
American non-acceptance of the rule of the shorter term may cause certain works to be considered copyrighted in the USA even if they are in the public domain in their source countries. If a work has been legally published in the USA and another jurisdiction, it is anyway subject to the USA copyright term even if the USA had accepted the rule of the shorter term.
Administrators: Whenever deleting works in the public domain in source countries but copyrighted in the USA, please list them below so they can be more easily submitted again once the USA accepts the rule of the shorter term.
- Author:G. K. Chesterton:
- Four Faultless Felons has no record in the Stanford database, but contains copyrighted work: "The Ecstatic Thief" copyrighted 1929, renewed 1957, R188601, "The Moderate Murderer" and "The Honest Quack" both copyrighted 1929, renewed 1957. R188600. There's no renewal record of "The Loyal Traitor" in the Stanford database.
- The Poet and the Lunatics was copyrighted 1929 and renewed 1957 as well. (R198754)
- The Return of Don Quixote was copyrighted 1927 and renewed 1954. (R140104)
- Tales of the Long Bow was copyrighted 1925 and renewed 1953. (R106659)
- The Scandal of Father Brown was copyrighted 1935 and renewed 1963. (R320553)
- The Secret of Father Brown was copyrighted 1927 and renewed 1954. (R140552)
- The Incredulity of Father Brown was copyrighted 1926 and renewed 1953. (R114867)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (Chesterton) was copyrighted 1927 and renewed 1958. (R145942)
- William Cobbett was copyrighted 1926 and renewed 1953. (R115345)
- The Outline of Sanity was copyrighted 1927 and renewed 1955. (R145941)
- The Everlasting Man was copyrighted 1925 and renewed in 1953. (R106437)
- Author:Arthur Conan Doyle:
- The Land of Mist was copyrighted 1926 and renewed in 1954. (R128774)
- The Disintegration Machine was copyrighted 1928 and renewed in 1956. (R177202)
- Ten of the twelve stories in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes remain under copyright in the United States:
- The Adventure of the Illustrious Client was copyrighted 1924 and renewed in 1952. (R92993)
- The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier was copyrighted 1926 and renewed in 1954. (R129373)
- The Adventure of the Three Gables was copyrighted 1926 and renewed in 1954. (R129374)
- The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire was copyrighted 1923 and renewed in 1951. (R82151)
- The Adventure of the Three Garridebs was copyrighted 1924 and renewed in 1952. (R92992)
- The Adventure of the Creeping Man was copyrighted 1923 and renewed in 1950. (R65266)
- The Adventure of the Lion's Mane was copyrighted 1926 and renewed in 1954. (R129372)
- The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger was copyrighted 1927 and renewed in 1955. (R149513)
- The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place was copyrighted 1927 and renewed in 1955. (R149513)
- The Adventure of the Retired Colourman was copyrighted 1926 and renewed in 1954. (R129371)
- Author:Rudyard Kipling:
- Banquet Night was published in 1926, and the copyright was renewed, according to the Stanford database, in 1953 (R117669)
[edit] Recently fulfilled requests
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The Mill on the Floss (1860 novel) by George Eliot
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Candide by Voltaire
- Plutarch's Lives
- Minimanual Of The Urban Guerrilla, by Carlos Marighella
- The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
- Adam Bede by George Eliot
- Love for Love by William Congreve (1695 comedic play)
- Cherokee Constitution 1839
- The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Red Room by H. G. Wells
- Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Herman Melville's I and My Chimney
- The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, 1863
- Jamaican National Anthem (already exists)
- L. Frank Baum's The Patchwork Girl of Oz
- L. Frank Baum's Rinkitink in Oz
- L. Frank Baum's The Scarecrow of Oz
- L. Frank Baum's The Road to Oz
- L. Frank Baum's Ozma of Oz
- L. Frank Baum's Tik-Tok of Oz
- James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth (1901)
- Low-Life Deeps: An Account of the Strange Fish to Be Found There by James Greenwood
- L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz
- Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1872
- Maastricht Treaty (1992, forming the European Union also called Treaty on European Union)
- The Syllabus of Errors by Pope Pius IX
- The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
- The Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan
- White-Jacket by Herman Melville
- The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
- Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker
- Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner.
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (copyediting still in progress)
- The Double Dealer (1693 play) by William Congreve
- Ulysses (Joyce) by James Joyce, 1922 novel
- The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, also known as the Jefferson Bible - (Wikipedia) Thomas Jefferson, published 1904 (or 1895)
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot Full text at [10]
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- Coming soon, I promise. Cowardly Lion 22:19, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
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- The Urantia Book, public domain according to the Wikipedia article
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe [11]

