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

Wed Oct 27 19:34:47 UTC 2010

(Last email to pd-discuss tonight -- I promise!)

Big +1! ;-)

This is a great idea and we'd definitely like to help out however we can.

I know that Primavera has started to do some excellent work to map out
contact details for public domain experts (predominantly legal) around
the world. Perhaps this could be a good excuse to extend this to
relevant organisations, advocates, and so on.

We could then start to systematically contact people around the world
to see they're doing anything (and of course to encourage them to do
so!).

Primavera: what do you think?

J.C.: how can folks get involved in contributing to PDD site? Also
what about e.g. a group blog at blog.publicdomainday.org?

All the best,

Jonathan

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 7:04 PM, J.C. DE MARTIN <demartin at polito.it> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks a lot to Jonathan for resuming the conversation we had started in the
> Summer
> about the upcoming PD Day 2011. For the 2010 edition we had created the
> following mini-site
>
> www.publicdomainday.org
>
> which documented the celebrations that we knew about (mostly COMMUNIA
> members from Switzerland and Poland). We also collected the reports of such
> celebrations, when available.
>
> This year - through the concerted efforts of anyone who cares about the PD,
> including our good friends at the COMMUNIA network, OKF, Creative Commons,
> and many others -  we should strive - if you agree - to stimulate
> (facilitate?)
> more celebrations around the world.
>
> The reference organizational model could the Open Access week, with a single
> site
> managed by the supporting entities that collectively promote the event and
> populate the website with news, links,  relevant resources, etc.
>
> If you like the model, we would be most glad to share the responsibility of
> managing the site - which we have started and hosted, but with the desire,
> from the beginning, of placing it at the service of the public domain.
>
> What do you think?
>
> I will send a description of what we are organizing in Torino (Italy)
> for the PD Day celebration in a separate message.
>
> Best regards,
>
> juan carlos
>
> prof. juan carlos de martin
> coordinator - COMMUNIA project
> http://communia-project.eu
>
>
>
> Jonathan Gray wrote (on 17/10/10 00:25):
>>
>> 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
>>
>
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