[pd-discuss] Making a short film about public domain calculators based on meeting in Cambridge next week?

[Jonathan Gray]

Also, Paul, Lucie, Mireille: do you have links to the relevant texts
of Dutch copyright legislation that you could share with the list?

Any other recommended reading would be much appreciated!

Jonathan

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've started putting together a transcript for a micro-short film
> about the public domain calculators project, based on our meeting in
> Cambridge next week [1]:
>
>  http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators/Film
>
> I would be very grateful for any input on the transcript so far! In
> particular - does anyone have any ideas for interview sections we
> could put in? E.g it would be great to have brief sections on the
> history and purpose of copyright laws, on copyright laws in different
> countries, on the social and economic value of the public domain, on
> good examples of public domain works being reused, on why the PD
> calculators are a good idea and so on. Would anyone like to volunteer
> to be interviewed?
>
> As many of you know, one of the main aims of the meeting next week is
> to document the process of making flow charts such as [2] and [3]. We
> will use the Dutch case as an example, which we will work through as a
> group.
>
> While this documentation will probably mostly take the form of written
> documents and photographs, a short film will be a good general
> introduction to the topic, and the meeting should be a good
> opportunity to get footage of public domain experts from different EU
> Communia member organisations.
>
> I look forward to seeing people next week!
>
> [1] http://blog.okfn.org/2009/10/07/public-domain-calculators-meeting-10-11th-november-2009/
> [2] http://blog.kaplan-myrth.ca/updates-to-the-canadian-copyri
> [3] http://www.sunsteinlaw.com/practices/copyright-portfolio-development/flowchart.htm
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://www.okfn.org
>



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Jonathan Gray

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