[pd-discuss] Activities for Public Domain Day 2013

[Samuel Klein]

A mashup sounds lovely.  I'm metasj on skype, on now as well...
wikimedia france is good at such things, I thikn.


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Primavera De Filippi <
primavera.defilippi at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Samuel,
> let's talk to you about this !
> I am available to chat any time today - starting from now  :)
> with creative commons and wikimedia france, we were also thinking to make
> some kind of multimedia file made up of a remix/mash-up of works entering
> into the pd this year, not sure if you're interested in such an initiative
> but would be nice to work together on this   :)
> shall we set up a time for skype?
> my handle is "thisk0"
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Yes, I meant tonight/tomorrow starting roughly now :)
>>
>> My thoughts: let's iterate on the total PDD bundle.
>>
>> ========== v 0.1  =============
>>
>> = Hook ==
>> http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/12/11/class-of-2013/
>>
>> =Creator List=
>> Franz Boas
>> B. Malinowski
>> L M Montgomery
>> Robert Musil
>> Eric Ravilious
>> Bruno Schulz
>> Edith Stein
>> A E Waite
>> Grant Wood
>> F. Younghusband
>> Stefan Zweig
>>
>> = Work List =
>> ??? [TBD]
>>
>> = Torrent file =
>> ??? [Requires work list]
>>
>> ==========  ~  ~  ~  =============
>>
>>
>> To finish this version, we need a list of works, and a torrent.  And then
>> an update to the original post with those.
>>
>> For v.2, we should include works from the 41 authors on the next-lager
>> list, and the names and metadata for the 500 from Tom and Adrian's author
>> query.  And perhaps someone can start working on actually posting and
>> digitizing/ocr'ing the work of the initial 11.
>>
>> For v.3, we should include the names of the larger list of notable people
>> who died in 1942 (again: the relevant data is both the fact that they died,
>>  pointers to where their work may be collected, and an indication of the
>> country in which we should be looking at copyright law)
>>
>> If we can get to at least v.2 this year, that would be awesome.
>>
>>
>> As Maarten rightly points out:  "every notable person on Wikipedia
>> probably created something copyright protected. "
>>
>> True.  And many more.   What we need for this and future years is an open
>> system where anyone who loves the public domain can think hard about
>> whether they know someone who should be added to that year's spreadsheet --
>> or add them to the appropriate year's spreadsheet over the coming decade
>>  -- and can start identifying their full list of works and where those
>> works are physically & digitally located.
>>
>> SJ
>>
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