[OpenGLAM] Launch of the Public Domain Calculator in France

Tue Feb 18 12:11:15 UTC 2014

The French public domain calculator is, indeed, mainly based on the
previous work done by the OKF (http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators)
and the national copyright flowcharts developed by Europeana
IViR/Kennisland at http://outofcopyright.eu/media.html
We designed the code so that it is country-neutral, i.e. in order to make
it work on another jurisdiction, it suffices to load a different flowchart
(only minor edits are required to the Europeana flowcharts to make them
comply with the pdcalculators format).
Now that we have are somewhat working version of the French calculators
(we're still working on fixing some bugs.. :), we are planning to turn it
into an international project..
The pre-alpha release of the international Public Domain Calculators is
available here: http://publicdomainworks.net/ (although obviously we only
have the French jurisdiction for now..  ;) More details on the underlying
implementation are available here:
http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/code
Let me know if you're interested in helping out !
Cheers,
Primavera

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Prior to this work from Europeana (which - as you can imagine - we were
> very pleased to see!), the Open Knowledge Foundation had been working on
> calculators for the UK as part of its Public Domain Works project, and
> coordinating with Aaron Swartz who was keen to do one for the US and other
> countries for the OpenLibrary.
>
> We then decided that it would be good to do this for countries around the
> world - and had several meetings about this under the auspices of the
> Communia network. Europeana - in particularly the University of Amsterdam
> and Kennisland - then put together this excellent set of flowcharts for
> many EU countries.
>
> The original idea was to turn the flowcharts into code and combine them
> with metadata about works to enable automatic estimations of copyright
> duration around the world. More information about our work in this area and
> the idea for the public domain calculators is available here:
>
> http://publicdomain.okfn.org/calculators/
>
> J.
>
>
> On 18 February 2014 12:18, Mathias Schindler <
> mathias.schindler at wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> Work has been done before in this regard in 25+ countries:
>> http://outofcopyright.eu/
>>
>> 2014-02-18 12:15 GMT+01:00 Sebastiaan ter Burg <terburg at wikimedia.nl>:
>> > Thank you for sharing. Would it be possible to scale this
>> internationally?
>> > If yes, what would it take to do so?
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> > Sebastiaan
>> >
>> >
>> > 2014-02-17 18:06 GMT+01:00 Primavera De Filippi
>> > <primavera.defilippi at okfn.org>:
>> >>
>> >> Hello everyone,
>> >> we are pleased to announce the launch of the public domain calculator
>> for
>> >> France.
>> >>
>> >> The public domain calculator is a technical tool that help people
>> figure
>> >> out the legal status of a work in a particular jurisdiction so as to
>> >> establish whether the work is still protected by copyright law has
>> already
>> >> entered into the public domain.
>> >>
>> >> The beta version of the application is available on the following
>> website:
>> >> http://calculateurdomainepublic.fr
>> >>
>> >> Do not hesitate to send us your comments or suggestions on how to
>> improve
>> >> the app!
>> >>
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