Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow

> On 31 December 2015 at 08:12 geni wrote: > > > Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight > can be found at: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain > > That said this will have a fairly limited impact on

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow

The "German focus" is no doubt partly down to better metadata in Wikidata, but also ties into something I spotted years ago - proportionally more notable people in dewiki died in 1945 than in enwiki. http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2010/demographics-in-wikipedia/ Making the reasonable

[Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day tomorrow

Partial list of works that will hit the public domain at midnight tonight can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_in_public_domain That said this will have a fairly limited impact on wikipedia due to issues with US copyright laws. -- geni

[Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2014

Public domain day is coming up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Domain_Day Probably not that significant from our POV since the gap between 1923 and 1943 is large enough that quite a lot of stuff won't be PD in the US. There are also some slightly unfortunate cases. Sergei Rachmaninoff and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 13:45, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The most prominent British writer to die in 1941 was Virginia Woolf, so no doubt we'll see a spate of reprints by about March. Others include Hugh Walpole (prolific but mostly forgotten), P. C. Wren (Beau Geste), A. G.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 20:42, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 19:25, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 17:19, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: Just added my great grandfather, Max Plowman (A Subletern on the Somme) to the

[Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and suchlike. My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly focused on the your paintings thing but I hope to expand it a bit before the new

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

Hi Geni all, When WMUK's promoted public domain day in the past, we've run into problems with explaining what this actually means for Wikimedia - since all of the projects follow US copyright law, nothing seems to change in terms of what content the Wikimedia projects can host and/or reuse.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and suchlike. My list of works that go PD is a bit short at the moment and mostly focused on the your

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 12:59, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I guess we could say yay, the content's now public domain in the UK - please could the US change its laws so that it's also public domain in the US so we can use it on Wikimedia, but I'm not sure that the news would

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 15:14, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 12:59, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: I guess we could say yay, the content's now public domain in the UK - please could the US change its laws so that it's also public domain in the US so we can

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Yes we are coming up to January 1st when things go public domain in the UK. I understand there will be a bit of a party. Fireworks and suchlike.

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 16:27, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: I won't deliberately avoid using works whose copyright will expire next year due to the author dying in the war in 1941. That's a moral right, not copyright. Wikimedia shouldn't take sides on moral right issues. The language may

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/10/11 13:45, Andrew Gray wrote: On 31 October 2011 12:37, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Geni/1941_deaths The most prominent British writer to die in 1941 was Virginia Woolf, so no doubt we'll see a spate

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because we don't feel comfortable saying Yay! This brilliant author got shot in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his books with

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 15:49, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: Do we need to avoid them for some special legal reason or just because we don't feel comfortable saying Yay! This brilliant author got shot in the head defending his country 70 years ago so we can now copy his books with

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day 2012

On 31 October 2011 16:27, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: I won't deliberately avoid using works whose copyright will expire next year due to the author dying in the war in 1941. That's a moral right, not copyright. Wikimedia shouldn't take sides on moral right issues. I wouldn't

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public Domain Day - Wikimedia UK press release

Hi Juan, Hope all is well. At this stage, I'd say it is unlikely we will be issuing a release but we will be looking to promote the contents in other ways. When we have more details about this, we will let you know. Any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Gem On 27

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public Domain Day - Wikimedia UK press release

Hi Gem, Thanks for your message. Please let's keep in touch. If you know of any relevant initiative, just mention it to Bernardo (copy) - thanks! Happy New Year and Happy Public Domain Day! juan carlos On 31/12/10 15:28, Gemma Griffiths wrote: Hi Juan, Hope all is well. At this stage,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public Domain Day - Wikimedia UK press release

Hi Juan, Thanks for getting in touch. We've been talking about whether we should put out another press release this year, however last year we discovered that things aren't quite as simple as we hoped with public domain day and Wikimedia. The servers for Wikimedia sites are based in the US,

[Wikimediauk-l] Public Domain Day - automated data

As many will know, last year on this list the idea came up of getting media coverage for authors whose works will fall out of copyright in 2011. WMUK is looking at the press release side of this in recent discussions. But there is a bigger issue (as always with Wikimedia!), namely how to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public Domain Day - automated data

On 17 December 2010 11:57, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: And that actually all excludes the American public domain position, which (as we found in 2009) makes for a much more complicated story. Hosting by the WMF on Wikisource (say) must go by US law. But there is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public Domain Day - automated data

On 17/12/2010 12:13, David Gerard wrote: There's also gutenberg.org.au, for things that are PD under Australian law (all of Orwell, for example). So what the WP list indicates is deaths before 1955, from the Australian POV, had copyrights lapsing in or before 2005; and otherwise nothing more

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

Brian McNeil wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 19:23 +, Charles Matthews wrote: WMUK list CC Steve Virgin Charles Matthews wrote: Brian McNeil wrote: Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone? Have you seen the recent Doonesbury strand

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:42 +, Andrew Turvey wrote: Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could fly well. When should it be put out? Given that 1 Jan

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

2009/12/22 Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 23:42 +, Andrew Turvey wrote: Well worth doing and well written - many thanks for this. We're getting together quite a list of press contacts and it's the kind of story in a news-light time of the year that could

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

Isabell Long wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:57:52AM +, geni wrote: January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: Wow,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

2009/12/21 geni geni...@gmail.com: January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 The

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

2009/12/21 Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com: Good idea, yeah I think it could be too, though what else could be put in it?  I don't know who does the press releases here. I forwarded Geni's message to the comcom list as well, but there's nothing to stop WMUK - very much in line with the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

2009/12/21 Brian McNeil brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 13:29 +, geni wrote: 2009/12/21 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: 2009/12/21 geni geni...@gmail.com: January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works of everyone who died in 1939 enter

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

Draft, then. What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of King Tut, author Zane Grey of the cowboy classic Riders of the Purple Sage, and sexologist Havelock Ellis have in common? The answer is that they all died in 1939, meaning that on New Year's Day all their works are free from

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Draft, then. Worth noting: It's A Wonderful Life only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well worth mentioning - people who read will certainly take the opportunity to push his

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +, David Gerard wrote: 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Draft, then. Worth noting: It's A Wonderful Life only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well worth mentioning -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

David Gerard wrote: 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Draft, then. Worth noting: It's A Wonderful Life only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well worth mentioning - people who read will certainly

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:31 +, Charles Matthews wrote: David Gerard wrote: 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Draft, then. Worth noting: It's A Wonderful Life only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

Brian McNeil wrote: Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone? Have you seen the recent Doonesbury strand about celeb voices for satnav? This one actually might have some legs. Charles ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

2009/12/21 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: Draft, then. What do Howard Carter, discoverer of the tomb of King Tut, author Zane Grey of the cowboy classic Riders of the Purple Sage, and sexologist Havelock Ellis have in common? The answer is that they all died in 1939,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:08 +, David Gerard wrote: 2009/12/21 Charles Matthews :Draft, then.Worth noting: It's A Wonderful Life only became a popular Christmas movie once it had entered the public domain. So Mr. Ford may be well worth

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 19:23 +, Charles Matthews wrote: WMUK list CC Steve Virgin Charles Matthews wrote: Brian McNeil wrote: Stephen Fry reading his favourite Yeats poem anyone? Have you seen the recent Doonesbury strand about celeb voices for satnav? This one

[Wikimediauk-l] Public domain day

January 1st is Public Domain Day. That is the day that all the works of everyone who died in 1939 enter the public domain. No I'm not the only one to note this creative commons apparently picks up on it: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 The most interesting name I'm aware of this