[pd-discuss] Public Domain Day 2011 / Which works enter the PD in 2011?

Sun Oct 17 15:48:49 UTC 2010

Some additional thoughts:

-- It'd be nice if whoever made the "life+70" version of the public
domain chart could also code up a "life+50" version.  (Since it looks
like the data was generated automatically, I'm hoping this could
be done just be changing a parameter.)  While Europe and a growing
number of other countries are on the life+70 term, there are still
a number of other countries (like Canada) that are still life+50,
but getting pressure for longer terms.  It'd be nice to show
what people on those countries get to enjoy, and demonstrate the
public benefits of the shorter term.

-- There are more names and works that could go on the chart.  I've just
checked the data I've downloaded from Hathi Trust for death dates in
1940, and found names not on this list, as well as works by them not
mentioned there.  (The Hathi data is not complete; I'm just downloading
the records for books that have been determined to be in the public
domain in the US; and there are often multiple records for different
editions of the same work.  But this may be a useful supplement.)

-- If you'd like to include Hathi data in this or public domain
or open-bibliographic projects, I've been told that they place
no restrictions on the OAI-exported versions of their records.
The information for OAI downloads can be found on their site.

-- A project I'll be announcing sometime tomorrow (assuming no
unforeseen glitches) will be making a lot of this data visible,
searchable, and browsable in some interesting ways.  Please
wait until the announcement on Everybody's Libraries, which will
have more specifics, to spread
this news,  but I think you'll find it an interesting and useful
example of the sorts of useful new applications of open bibliographic
data about public domain works.

John

Jonathan Gray wrote:
> I should also add that:
> 
> 1. We should think about what happened last year, and how we can build
> on it. For anyone who didn't see this, there is a summary of various
> initiatives here:
> 
> http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/05/public-domain-day-2010-a-roundup/
> 
> Specific links:
> 
> http://www.publicdomainday.org/
> http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday
> http://everybodyslibraries.com/2010/01/01/public-domain-day-2010-drawing-up-the-lines/
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20003
> 
> 2. Juan Carlos De Martin just pinged me about a list that he
> circulated to the communia-members list in August (which I missed!),
> which is reassuringly  similar to the one that we just generated from
> Wikipedia + DBpedia + PublicDomainWorks.net:
> 
> Francis Scott Fitzgerald
> Nathanael West
> Isaac Babel
> Mikhail Bulgakov
> Leon Trotsky
> Walter Benjamin
> Paul Klee
> 
> The only differences are that he's included Isaac Babel and Trotsky,
> and we've included John Buchan, author of the Thirty Nine steps! I
> guess we could also include Emma Goldman...
> 
> 3. We should also obviously work to make sure we coordinate with as
> many different initiatives as possible. If others have started
> planning (and its not going to spoil any special surprises!) perhaps
> they could pitch into this thread with an overview of what they're
> doing?
> 
> Would it be useful to have, e.g., a planning call on this?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just a quick note to get the ball rolling on preparations for Public
>> Domain Day 2011!
>>
>> To start off with, it would be good to have a clear picture of which
>> works are going to be entering the public domain (in different
>> jurisdictions) in the coming year.
>>
>> A rough guide is here:
>>
>> http://publicdomainworks.net/stats/year/2011
>>
>> I also cross referenced this with:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:1940_deaths
>> http://dbpedia.neofonie.de/browse/rdf-type:Person/deathDate-year~:1940~1940/
>>
>> As far as I can see, it looks like 'notable' creators whose work will
>> be entering the public domain include:
>>
>>  * F. Scott Fitzgerald
>>  * Paul Klee
>>  * Mikhail Bulgakov
>>  * John Buchan
>>  * Walter Benjamin
>>  * Nathanael West
>>
>> To all of you copyright experts: does this seem accurate?
>>
>> Here are a few more which I know less about but whom might be worth
>> investigating a bit more:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Vuillard
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Iorga
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Mac_Tu
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Mir%C3%B3
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Frederic_Benson
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Markham
>>
>> Any others to add?
>>
>> Also, FYI, I have started working on a new website which will be
>> launched on Public Domain Day 2011. Some information is available at:
>>
>> http://jonathangray.org/2010/10/17/introducing-the-public-domain-review/
>> http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://blog.okfn.org
>>
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>> http://identi.ca/jwyg
>>
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