Hiya Phoebe, For me, the big issue with preventing 20 years worth of material going into the public domain is that it probably hindered a lot of creative activity, and also denied corporations from deriving benefit from new creations. So if I was going to do a public domain editathon, in addition to creating/enhancing articles on the issues, I would select articles that show works' dependency of previous works - part of the nature and cycle of creation. Think jazz. Looking at the article 1923 in music <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_in_music>, I see pop songs lacking articles such as "Milenberg Joys," "My Sweetie Went Away" and "Some Sweet Day." All of these songs were covered by others. "Milenberg Joys" *in particular* became a well-kinown jazz standard - I'm surprised there's not an article on it already.
There's already an article on the song "Charleston" which was a major hit and is still occasionally used in film and tv to denote the 1920s. But there's no article on the musical from which it comes, "Runnin' Wild." I note that the composer of this show was the African American composer James P. Johnson - it was still pretty rare for such a composer to have a Broadway show. With Black History Month around the corner, it might make a good project. I know Duke's Public Domain Project has links to lots of articles. It would be nice if Wikipedia could have an article entitled like "How the public domain enhances the economy." Good luck! All the best, Bob Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts blog: http://www.nypl.org/blog/author/44 Twitter: @kos2 Listowner: OPERA-L ; EXLIBRIS-L ; SMT-ANNOUNCE ; SoundForge-users - My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my institutions - *Inspiring Lifelong Learning* | *Advancing Knowledge* | *Strengthening Our Communities * On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:40 PM phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > Is anyone doing anything with public domain day and Wikipedia? We are > running an edit-a-thon on Wikipedia Day centered around 1923 books we > digitized here at MIT libraries: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Public_Domain_Day_2019 > > but I am struggling with what kinds of articles to work on or activities > to do. > > Any ideas? Is anyone doing something similar in their libraries? I think > it would be fun to go through the Hathitrust 1923 collection, which is now > open, to see what would be good for Wikipedia: > https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?c=149827760;a=srchls;q1=* > > cheers, > Phoebe > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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