Isabell Long wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:57:52AM +0000, 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, that's good! I didn't realise that! > > >> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/11920 >> >> The most interesting name I'm aware of this year is Howard Carter who >> created a lot of paintings and drawings of Egyptian archaeological >> artifacts. >> > > Oh, quite interesting then! > > >> I'm trying to put together more names but I was wounder if >> it was something a press release could be built around? >> > > 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. > King Tut's tomb is strong enough for a press release (here we go again!). Discovered in 1922, only now will the public be able to treat Carter's works as their property.
Other deaths of authors: Havelock Ellis; Ford Madox Ford; Sigmund Freud; Zane Grey; Joseph Roth; W. B. Yeats. Arthur Rackham the illustrator too. Charles ** _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
