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A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [17] or have been forfeited. [clarification needed] [18] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest ...
Public-domain books within the United States include a number of notable titles, many of which are still commonly read and studied as part of the English-language literary canon. Examples include: Notes on the State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe
Constitutionalism of the United States has been defined as a complex of ideas, attitudes and patterns elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from the people, and is limited by a body of fundamental law. These ideas, attitudes and patterns, according to one analyst, derive from "a dynamic political and historical ...
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [ 1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...
samizdat. Literal meaning. self-publishing. Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, lit. 'self-publishing') was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli[ a] (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian [ b][ 4][ 5] author, philosopher, diplomat for the Republic of Florence and historian who lived during the Italian Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince ( Il Principe ), written around 1513 but not published until 1532, five years ...
Canon (fiction) The canon of a work of fiction is "the body of works taking place in a particular fictional world that are widely considered to be official or authoritative; [especially] those created by the original author or developer of the world". [ 2] Canon is contrasted with, or used as the basis for, works of fan fiction and other ...
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. Censorship is "the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority". [1] Censors typically identify as either a concerned parent, community members who react to a text without reading, or local or national ...