[okfn-discuss] Entering the Public Domain in 2013

Wed Nov 28 03:54:06 UTC 2012

Dear Adam and others,

Could we draft the good people at Distributed Proofreading? (
http://www.pgdp.net/c/) Also, It looks like Project Gutenberg is pretty
focused on US works, but that Project Gutenberg Australia and Canada have
been working hard on 1943+ works.

Also, Amelia Andersdotter has put out a very similar call. She's a Pirate
Party MEP:
http://ameliaandersdotter.eu/2012/11/25/public-domain-call-for-arts/. It
would be great if we could work with her.

Cheers,

*Chris Sakkas
**Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living
Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter
feed<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>
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On 20 November 2012 05:35, Adam Green <adam.green at okfn.org> wrote:

> Dear Chris,
>
> That's fantastic, thanks so much! Regarding getting these works digitised
> it would definitely be worth thinking about some kind of specific
> co-ordinated effort on this - perhaps involving Wikimedia and/or Project
> Gutenberg? A focused yearly drive for those works going into public domain
> in jurisdictions with the 70 years and plus rule. Often its only pre-1923
> works which have been done (as already in the public domain in the U.S).
>
> All the best,
>
> Adam.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris Sakkas <sanglorian at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] Entering the Public Domain in 2013
> To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org
> >
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I went through the list of writers who died in 1942 on Wikipedia and added
> everyone that I think of as noteworthy (priority given to people who wrote
> in English, people who were influential, people whose books are uploaded
> onto the Internet Archive, people whose books had their own Wikipedia
> pages). By all means add whoever else you like, but those are the criteria
> that I used.
>
> It would be great to get some more of these books digitised, OCRed and
> onto Project Gutenberg - or circulated more widely. Let me know if you have
> any ideas on that front.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> *Chris Sakkas
> **Admin of the FOSsil Bank wiki <http://fossilbank.wikidot.com/> and the Living
> Libre blog <http://www.livinglibre.com> and Twitter feed<https://twitter.com/#%21/living_libre>
> .*
>
>
>
> On 29 October 2012 21:05, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Like most years we want to get together a list of interesting figures
>> whose work will be entering the public domain next year (2013).
>>
>> I've booted a spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHJxTFNGSk0wWEdnY2FrMXNmSXlmU2c#gid=0> [1]
>> which we can all begin populating with the authors whose published works
>> will enter the public domain in the UK in 2013 (*70 years after the
>> death of author*).
>>
>> We plan to feature this list on the Public Domain Review<http://publicdomainreview.org/> and
>> use it as a point of reference for the collections and articles we get in
>> 2013.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Sam
>>
>> [1]
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al6mO9_3Hr2PdHJxTFNGSk0wWEdnY2FrMXNmSXlmU2c#gid=0
>>
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