[pd-discuss] Announcement: outofcopyright.eu launched

Fri May 6 10:54:01 UTC 2011

Thanks a lot, I will start with the graph and mail you elsewhere with our
legal bods in cc.

Javier

On 5 May 2011 12:54, Maarten Zeinstra <mz at kl.nl> wrote:

> Hi Javier,
>
> There are two good public domain calculator available for the UK. The
> calculator backing publicdomainworks.org created by the Open Knowledge
> Foundation and the Public Domain Calculator on OutOfCopyright.eu. Both can
> help probably help you with your inquiries.
>
> There are however a few caveats:
>
> 1. That a work is in the public domain does not mean that they need to be
> made available to the public. They ought to be, but there is no regulation
> to do so.
> 2. The definition of Open Access varies among parties, especially between
> large institutions and its visitors.
>
> That aside, we are more than willing to make a calculator like
> outofcopyright.eu for your specific purpose. If you download one of the
> Graphml[1] files from our site and edit it with yEd[2] for your purpose. Use
> only the same type of objects that are already in there. If you sent me the
> edited file we can offer you a specific new calculator for your site like
> the button based calculator on outofcopyright.eu [3]
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maarten
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> [1] http://outofcopyright.eu/media.html
> [2] http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
> [3] http://outofcopyright.eu/calculator.html
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> On May 5, 2011, at 13:21 , Javier Ruiz wrote:
>
> We would like to use the PDC to simplify some of these aspects, but it
> seems that it may need some tweaking or maybe adapted guidance. Some people
> in the sector think that it is too complicated for PDCs and we need to go
> case by case, but this is unworkable, so I would like to at least demarcate
> the lines of clarity with the PDC and focus then on the obscure cases.
>
> We have some very good IP lawyers in our group that could help clarify
> aspects of arcane UK IP law, such as apparently copyright on tables.
>
>
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