[pd-discuss] How to build a public domain calculator?

Wed Nov 18 17:01:15 UTC 2009

Hi all,

Christina Angelopoulos (at IViR) and I are going to be building on
work from the recent meeting [1] to make it easy for legal experts and
others to contribute towards a public domain calculator in their
country.

So far we've got the following questionnaire:

  http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dElKSXlyUkJ2UWRfN3RlNXJsQmQzU3c6MA

Which refers to a generic 'skeleton' public domain flow chart at:

  http://www.archive.org/download/public_domain_calculators/091111generic_copyright.pdf

Christina has also kindly donated us the following list of questions
(aimed at EU countries) asking about how the Term Directive has been
implemented:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators/Questions

Christina: I understand that these are the 'simple' questions, and
that you also had more complex questions? Should we also put these
online for reference purposes?

I guess the next step will be:

  1. To improve the Google Docs spreadsheet above in light of
Christina's questions and any other suggestions.
  2. To create a basic 'landing page' explaining the purpose, perhaps
at: http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators/GettingStarted
  3. To circulate this to relevant parties, and to identify/contact
individuals and groups in as many jurisdictions as possible.

[1] http://blog.okfn.org/2009/11/17/documentation-from-the-public-domain-calculators-meeting/

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org