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

Wed Oct 27 19:23:14 UTC 2010

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:06 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin at polito.it> wrote:
> two things:
>
> - please add Vito Volterra, the great Italian mathematician, to the list of
> notable
> authors entering the PD on 1 Jan 2011 (I have already added it to the pad);

Done! ;-)

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/10/18/which-works-enter-the-public-domain-in-2011/

> - I think that http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org is an extra cool idea !
>  Congratulations!

Thank you very much! I think this will be a really fun project. ;-)

J.

>
> Jonathan Gray wrote (on 17/10/10 12:54):
>>
>> 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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>>>
>>
>>
>

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